Re: lc_numeric and decimal delimiter

Gavin Sherry wrote:

> I am at OpenDBCon in Germany. People are complaining about floats/numerics
> not accepting German/European conventions for the delimiter point -- a
> comma. This is hard coded into the the numeric input parser but,
> naturally, we use strtod() in else where. I'm not sure about the locale
> stuff and whether it deals with it. Are we in the wrong here?

Yes.  Unless you consider it reasonable to expect applications to parse
numeric input from users to change the decimal and thousands separators.

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