Re: PR/42320 CVS commit: src/dist/nawk

[christos%zoulas.com@localhost (Christos Zoulas)]

The following reply was made to PR bin/42320; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: christos%zoulas.com@localhost (Christos Zoulas)
To: David Laight <david%l8s.co.uk@localhost>, gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Cc: gnats-admin%netbsd.org@localhost, netbsd-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost, 
alnsn%yandex.ru@localhost
Subject: Re: PR/42320 CVS commit: src/dist/nawk
Date: Sun, 15 Nov 2009 17:22:54 -0500

 On Nov 15, 10:11pm, david%l8s.co.uk@localhost (David Laight) wrote:
 -- Subject: Re: PR/42320 CVS commit: src/dist/nawk
 
 | On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 10:00:06PM +0000, Christos Zoulas wrote:
 | > The following reply was made to PR bin/42320; it has been noted by GNATS.
 | ...
 | >  Modified Files:
 | >    src/dist/nawk: main.c
 | >  
 | >  Log Message:
 | >  PR/42320: Alexander Nasonov: According to:
 | >  http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/7990989775/xcu/awk.html
 | >  the LC_NUMERIC decimal point recognized is always period. Make it so.
 | 
 | I'm not sure this DTRT, the above only refers to LC_NUMERIC in
 | awk program/script files, not in the data files being processed.
 | 
 | Also you can't force the decimal point to be '.' without ensuring
 | that the 1000s separator isn't also '.'.
 
 So what should we do? Reset it after the program is parsed? What does
 gawk do?
 
 christos