Command line arguments depend on locale

[Benny Amorsen]

Apparently ping has now started interpreting its command line arguments
depending on locale. I.e. ping -i 0.1 no longer works in locales where
comma is the decimal separator.

This makes it difficult to call system commands. The only workaround is
to set LC_ALL to a known-good locale, but then your users get no benefit
from the translations of error messages and so on.

Is Linux really doomed to repeat the mistakes made by Visual Basic more
than a decade ago?


/Benny