[Python-Dev] Re: Be Honest about LC_NUMERIC [REPOST]

[Christian Reis]

On Mon, Sep 01, 2003 at 02:30:23PM -0400, Tim Peters wrote:
> There's no way of using C's locale gimmicks that's threadsafe, short of all
> callers agreeing to follow a beyond-standard-C exclusion protocol -- which
> is the same as saying "no way" in reality.  So that's part of one problem no
> patch of this ilk *can* solve.  It's not that the patch doesn't try hard
> enough, it's that this approach is inherently inadequate to solve all of
> this particular problem.
> 
> > It is just that the patch does not "feel" right, given that there must
> > be "native" locale-inaware parsing of floating point constants
> > somewhere on each platform (atleast on those that support C++98).
> 
> I haven't found one on Windows (doesn't mean it doesn't exist, does mean
> it's apparently well hidden if it does exist).

Just to follow up, today I found a thread on opengroup.org that
discusses locale-safe APIs in the C library. They don't suggest anything
very positive in the way of standardization :-/

http://www.opengroup.org/austin/mailarchives/austin-group-l/msg00763.html

Take care,
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