bin/72006: floating point formating in non-C locales

David Schultz das at FreeBSD.ORG
Thu Sep 23 15:22:08 PDT 2004


On Thu, Sep 23, 2004, Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
>  True, but partial support already exists for producing these numbers
>  with the %'f format of printf:

I think the support for %' in printf(3) is complete, and the fact
that printf(1) doesn't support locales is a bug in printf(1).  It
wouldn't be hard to fix this, but it requires someone who actually
understands non-US locales and can therefore verify that the
result is correct.  ;-)


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