On 8/19/21 9:41 AM, Léa Gris wrote:
> This will fail because of questionable design decision of having a mutable
> argument format:
>
> LC_NUMERIC=fr_FR@UTF-8; printf 'Pi: %2.4f\n` "$(bc -l <<<'4*a(1)')"
>
> Note how the format indicator still use a dot, but the argument format's
> decimal separator is that of the system's locale.
That's not a decimal point. The `2.4' is not some sort of decimal or
floating point number. The dot just separates the field width from the
precision.
If the argument is, in fact, a floating point number with a radix
character, the radix character is appropriately locale-dependent.
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