topic Re: Reg. Decimal Symobal in Operating System - HP-UX

Reg. Decimal Symobal

Kennedy_1 — Wed, 23 May 2001 18:13:47 GMT

Hi I need to change the decimal symobol fromat from .(DOT) to .(COMMA) to do some testing. Can somebody help me with this.

What Ive done so far:
Ive set the LC_TIME to GB
Now I need to change the Decimal Symbol format from (DOT) to (COMMA)and Back

Re: Reg. Decimal Symobal

Cheryl Griffin — Thu, 24 May 2001 11:19:32 GMT

Have you tried setting:
LC_NUMERIC=C

Re: Reg. Decimal Symobal

Kenneth Platz — Thu, 24 May 2001 18:24:38 GMT

Kennedy,

The decimal character (along with the thousands separator, grouping, and alternate digits) is set by the LC_NUMERIC environment variable. In order to check the current setting for the decimal character, you can run the command:

locale -ck decimal_point

If you are currently in the "C", "POSIX", or other US-English locales, you will get something along the lines of:

$ locale -ck decimal_point
LC_NUMERIC
decimal_point="."

On the other hand, if you set your LC_NUMERIC field to fr_FR.iso88591, you will get output similar to the following:

$ LC_NUMERIC=fr_FR.iso88591 locale -ck decimal_point
LC_NUMERIC
decimal_point=","

More information can be found in the man pages for locale(1) and localedef(4).

Re: Reg. Decimal Symobal

Kennedy_1 — Thu, 24 May 2001 19:20:54 GMT

I tried changing to LC_NUMERIC=fr_FR.iso88591
but stil for $locale -ck decimal_point
Im getting (.) Dot

How do I change it to comma.

An early Reply will be highly appreciated

Kennedy

Re: Reg. Decimal Symobal

Mark Fenton — Fri, 25 May 2001 00:31:30 GMT

you need to export the change:

# export LC_NUMERIC=fr_FR.iso88591

then when you check:

# locale -ck decimal_point
LC_NUMERIC
decimal_point=","

hth
Mark