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After your post I quickly checked and was relieved to find that C's sprintf has not yet been touched by the locale police. phewww. Although I found this:

For some numeric conversions a radix character ("decimal point") or thousands' grouping character is used. The actual character used depends on the LC_NUMERIC part of the locale. (See setlocale(3).) The POSIX locale uses '.' as radix character, and does not have a grouping character.

And also this, which distinguishes between %g and %'g

' For decimal conversion (i, d, u, f, F, g, G) the output is to be grouped with thousands' grouping characters if the locale infor‐ mation indicates any.

Perhaps issue a feature request that Perl follows the same principle. You will do mankind a favour. Unless it does already?

bw, bliako

In reply to Re: A locale independent sprintf? by bliako
in thread A locale independent sprintf? by swl

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