LC_NUMERC?

[Bernhard Reiter]

Am 22. Feb 2005 um 09:14:32 schrieb Andreas Beyer:
> I guess the American standard (== C-locale) is virtually an 
> international standard. So, we might go for the C-locale in case of 
> LC_NUMERIC. In any case this should only be the default! 

This is the current situation in CVS, 
after I read up on that locale documentation.

> The makefiles 
> should have an option to set the locale explicitely. 

Even better we could make it a command line option, 
then people can decide each time they call statist.
Or do you think that would be worse?

> Thus, in order to 
> communicate with gnuplot we would still have to set the C-locale 
> explicitely (and set it back afterwards). 

Yes and LC_NUMERIC should be enough for this.
Anybody wants to do the patch? :)

	Bernhard
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