On Mon, 22 Apr 2002, Tom Lane wrote:
> You did not say what platform you are on, but I suspect you are getting
> bit by 7.1's nonportable assumptions about behavior of localeconv().
> These garbage locale strings could have come from 7.1's assumption that
> a string returned by localeconv() will still be valid after changing
> settings with setlocale().
>
> Try 7.2.
Just was in the process of installing the new Debian packages and did now.
IN fac the warning disapears in 7.2. However, the output is not compliant
with German locale settings (should be ',' instead of '.'). This is not
really important for my case but might be interesting for others.
Kind regards and thanks for the hint
Andreas.