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Author skrah
Recipients cstratak, lemburg, serhiy.storchaka, skrah, vstinner
Date 2018-01-15.12:52:30
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On Mon, Jan 15, 2018 at 12:37:28PM +0000, Marc-Andre Lemburg wrote:
> If you first set LC_ALL and then one of the other categories such as LC_NUMERIC, locale C functions will still use the LC_ALL setting for everything. LC_NUMERIC does not override the LC_ALL setting.

I have the exact same questions as Marc-Andre.  This is one of the reasons why I
blocked the _decimal change.  I don't fully understand the role of the new glibc,
since #7442 has existed for ages -- and it is a open question whether it is a bug
or not.

Both views are reasonable IMO.
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