[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #44029] Decimal number input parsing depends on locale

[Mike Miller]

Update of bug #44029 (project octave):

                  Status:                    None => Works For Me           

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Follow-up Comment #4:

The only way I can get this to happen on my system is by commenting out the
following lines in libinterp/octave.cc:


  //setlocale (LC_NUMERIC, "C");
  //setlocale (LC_TIME, "C");


If I then set my locale to de_DE.utf8 or fr_FR.utf8, I get the same incorrect
results reported here. If I leave those lines compiled in, then the locale in
my environment doesn't affect how numbers are read or written.

Is it possible that the "C" locale doesn't exist or is configured differently
on some systems?

For the reporter or other people affected by this bug, what do the following
display in a bash shell?


$ printf "%.6f\n" 1
$ LC_NUMERIC=C printf "%.6f\n" 1



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