Re: Locale usage

[Richard Frith-Macdonald]

On Monday, April 30, 2001, at 03:45 PM, Adam Fedor wrote:

> Richard Frith-Macdonald wrote:
> > Ideally, the code in GSFormat.m should be extended to handle floats
> > directly
> > rather than using sprintf() ... I think any rewriting of sprintf()
> > output is
> > going to be error prone and inefficient.
>
> I think you can set the locale to 'C' just for numeric conversion. Would
> that be sufficient?

Problem is ... what if something else (possibly in another thread) sets 
it back.

Also, we actually need to use a different NSDecimalSeparator or 
NSThousandsSeparator
when we are in a method like initWithFormat:locale: and another locale 
dictionary
is supplied ... so we would need to either change the locale within the 
method, or
use the C/POSIX locale and rewrite afterwords.

Certainly, I see setting the locale to C/POSIX as a temporary solution 
within certain
limitations, but I can't see it as a long term solution to the problem.
I think in the long term we have to 'steal' the libc code and hack it to 
use the OpenStep
locale dictionary stuff.