bug#12392: emacs-gtk misinterprets floating-point numbers under certain locales on openSUSE 12.2

[Holger Arnold]

Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > But in which places is Emacs using localized strings at all?
> 
> Everything that comes from strftime, for example.  You see that in
> action in the tooltip shown when the mouse pointer is above the
> mode-line time string, after turning on display-time.

Ok, then setting LC_NUMERIC to "C" means that integer numbers displayed in 
tooltips and other parts of the UI are not localized, while dates and other 
strings are.

        Holger