Re: Strange behaviour

[Michael Sobolev <mss@transas.com>]

On Thu, Mar 30, 2000 at 07:48:00PM +0200, Michael Meskes wrote:
> I usually run my shell with LC_ALL set to de_DE.
Usually using LC_ALL is not a very good idea.  It's better to use LANG, or, if
you want only particular aspects of the program behaviour to be localized,
LC_CTYPE, LC_MESSAGE, LC_TIME, LC_NUMERIC.

> michael@feivel:~$ printf "%1.1f\n" 1
> 1,0
> michael@feivel:~$ unset LC_ALL
> michael@feivel:~$ printf "%1.1f\n" 1
> 1,0
I'd execute `locale' command at this point.

More information about the issue is available as locale(7) (i.e.
`man 7 locale')

--
Mike