RE: Locale problem

[Stoil Todorov <torpedo_st@...>]

Tank You, guys
But I don't want to change all local settings:-(
I want to change only digital sign - I want to be sure
 that digital sign will be point during executing Lua
code...
Is it possible?

--- "marcus.cf" <marcus.cf@bol.com.br> wrote:
> > On Windows :
> > os.setlocale('Portuguese - Brazil')
> > io.read('*n') -- accepts the number
> 5,6 and not 5.6
> >
> > os.setlocale('English')
> > io.read('*n') -- back to '.'
> >
> > --
> > Marcos
> >
> 
> Wow! I would never guess that! Thanks
> for the information!!
> 
> 
> > You might want to be careful about the ','
> separator. For example,
> >
> > os.setlocale('Portuguese - Brazil')
> > num = 5,6 --> num has a value of 5, though 5.6
> might have been expected
> > num = tonumber( "5,6" ) --> num has a value of 5.6
> >
> > There are other places too like specifying table
> fields i.e. t = {1,23} vs t = {tonumber( "1,23" )}.
> >
> > Tai
> 
> Sure. I don't expect the language to
> change with os.setlocale. That would
> be a mess. os.setlocale only changes
> the library behavior.
> 
> 
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