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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Boruch Baum <boruch_baum@gmx.com>
Cc: manikulin@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: CSV parsing and other issues (Re: LC_NUMERIC)
Date: Mon, 07 Jun 2021 15:28:38 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <83a6o1hn9l.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210606233638.v7b7rwbufay5ltn7@E15-2016.optimum.net> (message from Boruch Baum on Sun, 6 Jun 2021 19:36:38 -0400)

> Date: Sun, 6 Jun 2021 19:36:38 -0400
> From: Boruch Baum <boruch_baum@gmx.com>
> Cc: Maxim Nikulin <manikulin@gmail.com>, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
> 
> 1] @Maxim: You seemed to indicate that the default emacs locale is 'C'.
>    That may be true

That's only true for LC_NUMERIC category.

> 2] @Eli: You wrote
> 
> > > The problem with that, of course, is that not every supported
> > > platform can dynamically change the locale, let alone do that
> > > efficiently.
> 
>    I have no idea to what actual supported platform you're referring.

GNU/Linux is the only one I know of that can efficiently switch
locales dynamically (and even that in recent versions of libc, AFAIR).

> > > Text processing in Emacs is generally separate from the current
> > > locale's rules,
> > > ...
> > > So passing a locale argument to functions that produce output,
> > > with the intent to request some behavior to be tailored to that
> > > locale, is the only reasonable way to have this kind
> 
>    Agreed. My input here is that there should be clear documentation of
>    how to retrieve a value for that argument from a buffer's context,
>    (maybe the same way that flyspell does?).

Sorry, I don't see the relevance.  I was talking about calling
functions, so how does some buffer enter this picture?  Buffers don't
have anything to do with the locale used by library functions called
by Emacs.



  reply	other threads:[~2021-06-07 12:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-06-06 23:36 CSV parsing and other issues (Re: LC_NUMERIC) Boruch Baum
2021-06-07 12:28 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2021-06-08  0:45   ` Boruch Baum
2021-06-08  2:35     ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-06-08 15:35       ` Stefan Monnier
2021-06-08 16:35       ` Maxim Nikulin
2021-06-08 18:52         ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-06-10 16:28           ` Maxim Nikulin
2021-06-10 16:57             ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-06-10 18:01               ` Boruch Baum
2021-06-10 18:50                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-06-10 19:04                   ` Boruch Baum
2021-06-10 19:23                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-06-10 20:20                       ` Boruch Baum
2021-06-11  6:19                         ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-06-11  8:18                           ` Boruch Baum
2021-06-11 16:51                           ` Maxim Nikulin
2021-06-11 13:56                       ` Filipp Gunbin
2021-06-11 14:10                         ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-06-11 18:52                           ` Filipp Gunbin
2021-06-11 19:34                             ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-06-11 16:58               ` Maxim Nikulin
2021-06-11 18:04                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-06-14 16:38                   ` Maxim Nikulin
2021-06-14 17:19                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-06-16 17:27                       ` Maxim Nikulin
2021-06-16 17:36                         ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-06-10 21:10             ` Stefan Monnier
2021-06-12 14:41               ` Maxim Nikulin
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2021-06-02 18:54 LC_NUMERIC formatting [FEATURE REQUEST] Boruch Baum
2021-06-03 14:44 ` CSV parsing and other issues (Re: LC_NUMERIC) Maxim Nikulin
2021-06-03 15:01   ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-06-04 16:31     ` Maxim Nikulin
2021-06-04 19:17       ` Eli Zaretskii

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