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Karl Williamson <public@khwilliamson.com> writes: > > http://grep.cpan.me/?q=disable_setlocale+ > > shows 20 modules that do this, most of them authored by Kevin Ryde. I can't remember what went wrong that I put disable_setlocale(). It was probably version numbers suffering under "," for decimal point, but I don't know if this was due to modules with strings $VERSION="1.23" instead of numbers, or something of version.pm. > In order to > prevent needless setting and resetting of the locale, Perl keeps track > of what it thinks it is set to. You could probably ask xs code to announce when it has changed or might have changed the locale. A locale change should be unusual so only a few things would be affected. That's the new_numeric() in POSIX.xs setlocale() already is it? A spot of ppport.h could no doubt let it do something on all perls. I wonder that if the perl startups have already set the locale sensibly then the default in perl-gtk and wxperl ought to be to leave the locale alone. I suppose that means LC_NUMERIC is not localized, but perhaps anything except LC_NUMERIC=C usually causes too much trouble to perl. In some of my charting code I think I applied an LC_NUMERIC to get the locale decimal into a Number::Format but then put it back to LC_NUMERIC=C for running. The Number::Format is then for user display, and ordinary "C" decimal point for arithmetic. (I may have even proposed a function in Number::Format which would give a formatter object with locale-ized settings.)Thread Previous | Thread Next