Re: LC_NUMERIC progress.

[Ben Pfaff]

On Sun, Dec 23, 2012 at 11:03:14PM +0100, John Darrington wrote:
> I see that we are using dtoastr from gnulib in a few places.  There
> does not seem to be any locale independent version of this function.
> Either we will need to write one, or we will need to use something
> else.
> 
> Do we need to use this function, or would c_strtod to the job ?

doastr converts a double to a string.
c_strtod converts a string to a double.

We should probably write a c_dtoastr().  It could be pretty simple, a
wrapper around dtoastr() that then searches for a comma and replaces it
by a period.