From: Utkarsh Singh <utkarsh190601@gmail.com>
To: Maxim Nikulin <manikulin@gmail.com>, emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#47885: [PATCH] org-table-import: Make it more smarter for interactive use
Date: Tue, 18 May 2021 20:35:37 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8735ukf5fi.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <s80c2n$fkd$1@ciao.gmane.io>
On 2021-05-18, 19:31 +0700, Maxim Nikulin <manikulin@gmail.com> wrote:
> The question may be risen in emacs-devel but I am unsure if I will
> participate in discussion.
Why?
>> Can you test this function:
>>
>> (defun org-table--comma-as-decimal-sep ()
>> "Return nil or 2 if separator is dot or comma respectively."
>> (string-search "," (format "%f" 10)))
>
> No, it does not work. `format' always uses dot. It is reasonable when
> e.g. during writing a config file or during data exchange when locales
> must be ignored.
>
> I was too optimistic. I did not expect that support of locales are so
> poor in Emcacs. I do not see any traces of localeconv(3) in sources that
> would allow to get value of decimal_point directly.
>
> Numbers are forced to use "C" locale and I have not noticed any way to
> override it. Initial settings:
>
> http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/tree/src/emacs.c#n1490
>
> http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/tree/src/emacs.c#n2861
>
> setlocale (LC_NUMERIC, "C");
>
Hmm, so this means that Elisp cannot read something like this '10,1' as
floating point number.
>> To test I am using: $ LANG=de_DE.UTF-8 emacs -Q
>>
>> But I am getting this as warning:
>> (process:1787): Gtk-WARNING **: 15:40:49.375: Locale not supported by C library.
>> Using the fallback 'C' locale.
>
> You get this error due to you have not generated this locale. On debian
> & ubuntu
>
> dpkg-reconfigure locales
>
> allows to select desired locales and performs all necessary actions.
Thanks! I have fixed it now.
--
Utkarsh Singh
http://utkarshsingh.xyz
prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-05-18 15:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-04-19 4:43 [PATCH] org-table-import: Make it more smarter for interactive use Utkarsh Singh
2021-04-19 8:19 ` Nicolas Goaziou
2021-04-19 14:23 ` Utkarsh Singh
2021-04-20 13:40 ` Nicolas Goaziou
2021-04-20 17:15 ` Utkarsh Singh
2021-04-23 4:58 ` Utkarsh Singh
2021-04-27 20:21 ` bug#47885: " Nicolas Goaziou
2021-04-28 8:37 ` Utkarsh Singh
2021-04-28 16:38 ` Maxim Nikulin
2021-05-10 18:36 ` Utkarsh Singh
2021-05-12 17:08 ` Maxim Nikulin
2021-05-14 14:54 ` Utkarsh Singh
2021-05-15 9:13 ` Bastien
2021-05-15 10:10 ` Utkarsh Singh
2021-05-15 10:30 ` Bastien
2021-05-15 11:09 ` Utkarsh Singh
2021-05-17 5:29 ` Bastien
2021-05-17 16:27 ` Utkarsh Singh
2021-06-01 16:23 ` Maxim Nikulin
2021-06-01 17:46 ` Utkarsh Singh
2021-06-02 12:06 ` Maxim Nikulin
2021-06-02 15:08 ` Utkarsh Singh
2021-06-02 16:44 ` Maxim Nikulin
2021-06-04 4:04 ` Utkarsh Singh
2021-06-05 12:40 ` Maxim Nikulin
2021-06-05 17:50 ` Utkarsh Singh
2021-06-09 12:15 ` Maxim Nikulin
2021-09-26 8:40 ` Bastien
2021-05-16 16:24 ` Maxim Nikulin
2021-05-17 16:30 ` Utkarsh Singh
2021-05-18 10:24 ` Utkarsh Singh
2021-05-18 12:31 ` Maxim Nikulin
2021-05-18 15:05 ` Utkarsh Singh [this message]
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