Command line arguments depend on locale

Matthew Miller mattdm at fedoraproject.org
Thu Jan 31 17:05:57 UTC 2013


On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 11:43:44AM -0500, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> > C locale and not do locale dependent parsing. It would be much more
> > robust and if you are good enough to use the -i switch you probably know
> > how to type 0.1 instead of 0,1 (or whatever format is in your locale) as
> > well.
> Right, output should be locale specific. Input command line args... seems
> specious.

I'd say "road to madness". If the args are to be locale-specific, why not
the options too? And the command names, for that matter.

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