Bug (?): The LC_NUMERIC variable

[Massimo . Campanini]

Goood morning.

I am an AWK newbie on Windows XP SP2 and Windows 2000 SP4.
I used for same time to work with release 3.0.6, then I decided to upgrade 
to the latest version (3.1.3.2) and some problems arose with numeric 
interpretations due to my Italian Regional Settings. I solved my problem 
setting properly the numeric settings in the Regional Settings (setting 
the '.' as decimal separator and the ',' as thousands separator), but 
since this looks like a dirty trick I looked in the gawk manual and found 
out about the LC_NUMERIC variable.
I tried both it internally at my code (an assignment LC_NUMERIC=C in the 
BEGIN statement) and externally (at the DOS prompt, before launching the 
gawk interpreter) but nothing changes. (I also would like to know where to 
find a list of the possible values for the LC_NUMERIC variable, since I 
found it nowhere throughout the Internet...).

At this point, either I absolutely misunderstood how to use the LC_NUMERIC 
variable, or there is a bug in gawk.

Would you help me please??

Thanks a lot for your effort.

Kind regards
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Massimo Campanini
Wireless Solutions
Avionics System Design - Navigation Laboratory
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