[Tcl-bugs] [ tcl-Bugs-920053 ] format doesn't respect locale

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Bugs item #920053, was opened at 2004-03-20 14:40
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Category: 16. Commands A-H
Group: None
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
Submitted By: David N. Welton (davidw)
Assigned to: Donal K. Fellows (dkf)
Summary: format doesn't respect locale

Initial Comment:
Hi,

Problem:

'format' command doesn't respect LC_NUMERIC locale
information, because of this:

tclUnixInit.c:652:	setlocale(LC_NUMERIC, "C");

which is sensible as a way of not messing things up
internally with Tcl, but creates some problems if one
needs to output things according to the locale being
used, with, say, the format command, where I noticed
the problem.

The only way I can think of, offhand, to fix it would
be to save the old value, and do setlocale during
'format' or other commands that return results.

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