Re: Feature request: c-snprintf

[Bruno Haible]

John Darrington wrote:
> In pspp, we've been using the c-ctype module.  Would it also be
> possible to produce a snprintf function and friends which ignores
> locale settings and always formats strings in the C locale? 

gnulib does not have this, but it has modules c-strtod and c-strtold
for conversion of numbers to strings in a locale independent way.
(The locale dependency of *printf is due to numbers and wide strings;
the latter are rarely used.)

Bruno