Following up on shell(locale) problem

[Peter Haworth]

Hey Jeff,
I also tried using the Bourne shell in Temrinal (the dictionary says that's what LC uses by default), and I got the same results as with bash.  I wish it had been that simple!

Pete Haworth

On Mar 1, 2011, at 1:13 PM, Jeff Massung wrote:

> It's possible that when you launch Terminal.app you are using BASH and that
> LC is using SH (or something other than BASH) that doesn't have the
> localization environment setup the same?
> 
> That's just a guess.
> 
> Jeff M.
> 
> On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 2:00 PM, Peter Haworth <pete at mollysrevenge.com>wrote:
> 
>> Hoping someone might come up with some help.  To recap, if I execute the
>> command
>> 
>> locale -k LC_NUMERIC
>> 
>> ...from Terminal on my Mac, the output is
>> 
>> decimal_point="."
>> thousands_sep=","
>> grouping="3;3"
>> 
>> However, if I use the LC Shell command to issue the same command and put
>> the output into a field, it gives me:
>> 
>> decimal_point="."
>> thousands_sep=
>> grouping="0"
>> 
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