[Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Oct 27, 2003, at 1:07 PM, Pierre JUHEN wrote:

> In French, float are represented with a comma instead of a dot.

In most if not all of Continental Europe, as I understand it, a comma 
rather than a dot is used as a "decimal point" (and the reverse applies 
to thousands separator).

> Using it with match doesn't work. Filter engine says " , unexpected in 
> this context".
>
> It doesn't work even by replacing the comma by a dot.

But you probably get a different error:

	"123.456" is not a valid number.

or something such as that.

> I am not an expert of "locale",  so, I am not able to propose a patch.

It's not a locale issue, it's a lexical analyzer issue; the lexical 
analyzer needs to allow ',' as a character in an "unparsed string".

I've checked in a change to allow that (and to allow '+' as a character 
in an "unparsed string", so you can do 1.234e+5 or 1,234e+5).  That 
change doesn't affect the code that parses the resulting string, so 
whether a comma or a dot is allowed as a decimal point depends on the 
locale you're in.  (I tried the patched version with LANG set to 
"fr_FR", and it allowed 1,234e+5 but didn't allow 1.234e+5.)

I've attached a patch for the change I checked in.

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