setlocale call in libextractor

[Aliaksey Kandratsenka]

Hi.

I'm having a minor issue with libextractor. I'm using libextractor
through Ruby language bindings. And setlocale call from libextractor
changes localized representation of numbers which causes ruby to do
conversion from numbers to string incorrectly. I understand that it's a
gray area. And that ruby interpreter can be blamed too. But I think that
libraries should avoid global environment changes. And setlocale does
such global change.

What do you think ? Is that call really necessary ?

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Aliaksey Kandratsenka <alk@...>



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[Christian Grothoff]

Hi!

I can only find a call to "setlocale" in "extract.c", which is not part of the
library (extract.c is for the "extract" binary, a stand-alone program).  

What version of LE are you using -- and what line of the code are you
referring to?

Best,

Christian

On Friday 26 June 2009 05:27:11 Aliaksey Kandratsenka wrote:

> Hi.
>
> I'm having a minor issue with libextractor. I'm using libextractor
> through Ruby language bindings. And setlocale call from libextractor
> changes localized representation of numbers which causes ruby to do
> conversion from numbers to string incorrectly. I understand that it's a
> gray area. And that ruby interpreter can be blamed too. But I think that
> libraries should avoid global environment changes. And setlocale does
> such global change.
>
> What do you think ? Is that call really necessary ?

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[Aliaksey Kandratsenka]

У Няд, 28/06/2009 у 11:22 -0600, Christian Grothoff піша:
> Hi!
Hi.
>
> I can only find a call to "setlocale" in "extract.c", which is not part of the
> library (extract.c is for the "extract" binary, a stand-alone program).  
>
> What version of LE are you using -- and what line of the code are you
> referring to?
I'm using version 0.5.21 from debian unstable. I've just re-checked and
latest upstream (yours) version 0.5.22 doesn't have setlocale call in
extractor.c. So there's no problem in latest version.

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