bug#12392: emacs-gtk misinterprets floating-point numbers under certain locales on openSUSE 12.2

[Andreas Schwab]

Holger Arnold <holgerar@gmail.com> writes:

> As to whether calling setlocale(LC_ALL, "") in a library is a bug, what would 
> you expect a library that wants to provide localized messages to do?  
> Changing 
> the locale before and after each call?  This would be racy in a 
> multi-threaded 
> program.

There is a good reason why the C standard says "The implementation shall
behave as if no library function calls the setlocale function."
Extending that to other libraries improves the quality of
implementation.

Andreas.

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