Character set conversions

[Daniel Gibson]

Am 31.05.2011 09:12, schrieb Kagamin:
> Daniel Gibson Wrote:
> 
>> Am 31.05.2011 09:02, schrieb Kagamin:
>>> Daniel Gibson Wrote:
>>>
>>>> In plain C (at least on Linux) you have fun locale-dependent in/output
>>>> as well: printf and scanf are locale dependent, so if you use sprintf
>>>> to generate a string you'll write into a file (or fprintf directly) with
>>>> one locale, reading it with scanf functions with another locale will fail.
>>>> Pretty fucking stupid IMHO.
>>>
>>> Doesn't C standard specify the locale to be "C" until you set it explicitly?
>>
>> At least on Linux it is usually set to whatever you specified on
>> installation (usually you just say "I want a german/english/whatever
>> installation" and the installer then sets the locales to de_DE.UTF8 or
>> whatever).
>> Applications use these settings to decide the language of their menus etc
> 
> according to N1425
> 7.11.1.1
> 4. At program startup, the equivalent of
> setlocale(LC_ALL, "C");
> is executed.
> 
> Fun fact is MS conforms with this specification.

So they break it deliberately in Excel? Smart.