[LU-349] port bug21847 to master (obdfilter-survey: Syntax error in some locales)

Tue, 7 Jun 2011 03:30:13 +0000

the awk in obdfilter_survey will encounter some problems in some locals,
e.g. with LC_NUMERIC="de_DE" which uses a comma as the decimal separator, awk output will have the localized format,
input can be parsed in this and the standard C locale, but arithmetic operations only grok numbers in C locale.

locale | grep LC_NUMERIC
LC_NUMERIC="de_DE@euro"
awk 'BEGIN {printf "%.1f\n", 1.0}
'
1,0
awk 'BEGIN {printf "%.1f\n", 1,0}
'
1,0
awk 'BEGIN {printf "%.1f\n", (1,0/1)}'
awk: BEGIN {printf "%.1fn", (1,0/1)}
awk: ^ syntax error

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[LU-349] port bug21847 to master (obdfilter-survey: Syntax error in some locales)