Re: [PHP4BETA] bug or feature ???
[email protected] (Zeev Suraski)
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At 23:58 22/05/2000 , Sascha Schumann wrote: >On Sun, 21 May 2000, Andi Gutmans wrote: > > > We are using the C library strtod() in order to convert the number to a > > decimal. I see that strtod() uses locale. > > How should this be handled? Should we move to a US locale for the > > conversion? (probably a bit slow). > >I think using the locale is a feature, not a bug. If people choose to use >locales we should not try to force an arbitrary locale onto them. Due to the fact that we have to write a scanner that analyzes the tokens, and recognizes floating point numbers, we can't support locales. Zeev -- Zeev Suraski <[email protected]> http://www.zend.com/