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Message-ID: <20190910173351.GR9017@brightrain.aerifal.cx> Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2019 13:33:51 -0400 From: Rich Felker <dalias@...c.org> To: musl@...ts.openwall.com Subject: Re: printf doesn't respect locale On Tue, Sep 10, 2019 at 06:10:20PM +0100, Daniel Schoepe wrote: > Basically, someone used printf to produce json output and was unaware > that the radix used by printf was locale-dependent. When this was run > on a system with a non-English locale, it no longer produced valid > JSON as output. Yes, like you say it's not really a bug in correct software so much as a pitfall programmers are unaware of, that's hard to program around. But it can actually be a bug in correct *application* software due to incorrect library software. Various library software (I think glib or gtk, IIRC, among many others) calls setlocale(LC_ALL,"") behind the application's back, rather than trusting that the application set the locale the way it wants (incidentially, this is not thread-safe or library-safe and makes these libraries unsafe to use via dlopen or anywhere but at the top of main!). If the application only intends to set other categories, but leave LC_NUMERIC as "C", then it should rightfully expect a '.' radix point, but this expectation will be violated if certain third-party libraries are involved. Rich > On Tue, Sep 10, 2019 at 5:31 PM Szabolcs Nagy <nsz@...t70.net> wrote: > > > > * Daniel Schoepe <daniel@...oepe.org> [2019-09-10 17:00:49 +0100]: > > > I'm also not a fan of this behavior, I actually stumbled across this > > > when tracking > > > down a bug the different radix usage caused. > > > > i'm interested in how this can cause a bug in correct software.
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