Re: PATCH, i18n - Use thousands separators in user-visible strings (Bug #41455)

[Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com>]

On Wed, 17 Jul 2002, Gregory Merchan wrote:

> On Wed, Jul 17, 2002 at 04:12:37AM -0400, Alexander Larsson wrote:
> > On Mon, 15 Jul 2002, Gregory Merchan wrote:
> > 
> > > The attached patch should close bug #41455 for all SUSv2 (and later?)
> > > systems. Afaict, non-compliant systems will see warnings but will not
> > > otherwise be affected.
> > > 
> > > I think I caught all of the user-visible strings. Some are unchanged
> > > because the number should never be greater than 999, such as a display
> > > of seconds.
> > > 
> > > This is a string change and a ui change. Note the freeze on Friday.
> > 
> > Are you sure non-compliant system will still work? I can see a system not 
> > supporting %'d ignoring that part instead of interpreting it as %d. Does 
> > e.g. solaris support this?
> 
> I'm far from sure a non-compliant system will still work.
> 
> Here's what I've found.
> Compiling a short test program
> 
>   #include <locale.h>
>   #include <stdio.h>
> 
>   int
>   main (int argc, char *argv[])
>   {
>     setlocale (LC_ALL, "");
>     printf ("%'.2f\n", 9876543210.0123456789);
>     printf ("%'d\n", 876543210);
>     return 0;
>   }
> 
> with just `cc test-program.c` works on:
>  Debian Sid x86 glibc 2.2.5, and
>  SunOS 5.8 at my university.
> 
> According to `man 5 standards` at the univeristy, Solaris 7 is SUSv2
> compliant. Sun requires Solaris 8 or 9 for Sun GNOME.
> 
> If there are any supported systems that don't comply, I think the bug should
> be pushed down to the glib layer. The documentation for the glib printf
> functions refers to the "standard C" functions, but doesn't specify which
> standard. We really need the requirements for GNOME made explicit.

It would be good if someone could try this on some other systems, like 
various HP/UX, IRIX, Solaris and AIX versions.

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