From: Maxim Nikulin <manikulin@gmail.com>
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#47885: [PATCH] org-table-import: Make it more smarter for interactive use
Date: Tue, 18 May 2021 19:31:16 +0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <s80c2n$fkd$1@ciao.gmane.io> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87a6osfig3.fsf@gmail.com>
It seems, there is no reliable way to work with numbers in a
locale-aware way in emacs. I am still against hard-coded list of
locales. Requirement to customize a variable is rather inconvenient.
Considering such properties as a part of translation is a little better
but I prefer to avoid it.
The question may be risen in emacs-devel but I am unsure if I will
participate in discussion.
On 18/05/2021 17:24, Utkarsh Singh wrote:
> On 2021-05-16, 23:24 +0700, Maxim Nikulin wrote:
>
>> On 14/05/2021 21:54, Utkarsh Singh wrote:
>>> On 2021-05-13, 00:08 +0700, Maxim Nikulin wrote:
>>>
>>>> Comma is decimal separator for es_ES, de_DE, ru_RU, etc. The point is
>>>> that order in which separator candidates are tried should depend on
>>>> active locale.
>>>>
>>> I am willing to work on this problem but before this can you identify
>>> any other locale with similar problem or a resource from where I can
>>> information's about locale.
>>
>> I do not think list of locales should be hard coded. I am not familiar
>> with elisp enough to tell you if locale properties such as decimal
>> separator are exposed through some function. I expect, it is quite
>> probable. As a last measure, some number, e.g. 0.5 or 1.5 could be
>> formatted using a locale-aware function and result string could be
>> checked if it contains ",".
>
> Can you test this function:
>
> (defun org-table--comma-as-decimal-sep ()
> "Return nil or 2 if separator is dot or comma respectively."
> (string-search "," (format "%f" 10)))
No, it does not work. `format' always uses dot. It is reasonable when
e.g. during writing a config file or during data exchange when locales
must be ignored.
I was too optimistic. I did not expect that support of locales are so
poor in Emcacs. I do not see any traces of localeconv(3) in sources that
would allow to get value of decimal_point directly.
Numbers are forced to use "C" locale and I have not noticed any way to
override it. Initial settings:
http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/tree/src/emacs.c#n1490
http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/tree/src/emacs.c#n2861
setlocale (LC_NUMERIC, "C");
> To test I am using:
> $ LANG=de_DE.UTF-8 emacs -Q
>
> But I am getting this as warning:
> (process:1787): Gtk-WARNING **: 15:40:49.375: Locale not supported by C library.
> Using the fallback 'C' locale.
You get this error due to you have not generated this locale. On debian
& ubuntu
dpkg-reconfigure locales
allows to select desired locales and performs all necessary actions.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-05-18 12:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-04-19 4:43 [PATCH] org-table-import: Make it more smarter for interactive use Utkarsh Singh
2021-04-19 8:19 ` Nicolas Goaziou
2021-04-19 14:23 ` Utkarsh Singh
2021-04-20 13:40 ` Nicolas Goaziou
2021-04-20 17:15 ` Utkarsh Singh
2021-04-23 4:58 ` Utkarsh Singh
2021-04-27 20:21 ` bug#47885: " Nicolas Goaziou
2021-04-28 8:37 ` Utkarsh Singh
2021-04-28 16:38 ` Maxim Nikulin
2021-05-10 18:36 ` Utkarsh Singh
2021-05-12 17:08 ` Maxim Nikulin
2021-05-14 14:54 ` Utkarsh Singh
2021-05-15 9:13 ` Bastien
2021-05-15 10:10 ` Utkarsh Singh
2021-05-15 10:30 ` Bastien
2021-05-15 11:09 ` Utkarsh Singh
2021-05-17 5:29 ` Bastien
2021-05-17 16:27 ` Utkarsh Singh
2021-06-01 16:23 ` Maxim Nikulin
2021-06-01 17:46 ` Utkarsh Singh
2021-06-02 12:06 ` Maxim Nikulin
2021-06-02 15:08 ` Utkarsh Singh
2021-06-02 16:44 ` Maxim Nikulin
2021-06-04 4:04 ` Utkarsh Singh
2021-06-05 12:40 ` Maxim Nikulin
2021-06-05 17:50 ` Utkarsh Singh
2021-06-09 12:15 ` Maxim Nikulin
2021-09-26 8:40 ` Bastien
2021-05-16 16:24 ` Maxim Nikulin
2021-05-17 16:30 ` Utkarsh Singh
2021-05-18 10:24 ` Utkarsh Singh
2021-05-18 12:31 ` Maxim Nikulin [this message]
2021-05-18 15:05 ` Utkarsh Singh
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