From: Bertram Scharpf <lists@...>
Date: 2007-06-04T21:39:26+09:00
Subject: Numeric locale

Hi,

the German decimal separator is ",". So pi will be
represented by "3,1415" rather than "3.1415". As far as I
know this behaviour is controlled by the LC_NUMERIC
environment variable.

Now, I notice the following on my system: When I'm in editor
Vim I may say in command mode:

  :ruby puts 4.56
  :!ruby -e 'puts 4.56'

The former is the built-in ruby interface, the latter a call
to a child process and will show thats standard output.

But I happen to encounter two different results. The
built-in version gives "4,56"; the child process prints
"4.56".

How can I make the normal Ruby process print a comma, too?

Thanks in advance

Bertram


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Bertram Scharpf
Stuttgart, Deutschland/Germany
http://www.bertram-scharpf.de