conf/68524: Including the Basque in the system

[Anton Berezin]

On Tue, Nov 16, 2004 at 07:24:04PM +1100, Tim Robbins wrote:
> On Mon, 2004-11-15 at 16:34 +0100, Anton Berezin wrote:
> > On Sat, Aug 28, 2004 at 12:57:14PM +0000, Tim J. Robbins wrote:
> > > Synopsis: Including the Basque in the system
> > > 
> > > State-Changed-From-To: open->patched
> > > State-Changed-By: tjr
> > > State-Changed-When: Sat Aug 28 12:52:54 GMT 2004
> > > State-Changed-Why: 
> > > Committed to -current with some modifications - thanks! I encourage you to
> > > check that the version in CVS behaves as it should.
> > > 
> > > I have no immediate plans to commit this to RELENG_4, but I'll at least try
> > > to get it into RELENG_5 some time before 5.3-RELEASE.
> > 
> > What I don't get is that LC_NUMERIC appears to use ' (that's right, a
> > single quote) as the decimal point.  Is it a typo, or is that indeed the
> > correct value?
> > 
> > (This leads for perl 5.8.6-RC1 tests to fail;  I am trying to determine
> > whether Perl or this PR is at fault).
> 
> It looks wrong to me. The eu_ES locales on all non-FreeBSD systems I've
> found use a comma for the decimal point character, not a single quote.

As we discussed this with J. Vicente Carrasco yesterday off-list, this
should be replaced with comma.  I am about to test and commit the change
now, unless you beat me to it.

> However, I'm not sure why Perl would care either way.

I have my guesses, but I am going to keep them to myself.  :-P

\Anton.
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