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Bug #17815 Zend scanner + setlocale() = wrong floating point numbers
Submitted: 2002-06-18 11:29 UTC Modified: 2002-11-10 18:37 UTC
From: sitnikov at infonet dot ee Assigned: hholzgra (profile)
Status: Closed Package: Scripting Engine problem
PHP Version: 4.2.1 OS: Linux
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
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 [2002-06-18 11:29 UTC] sitnikov at infonet dot ee 
a.php
<?
	setlocale(LC_ALL,'ru_RU');
	$a = 1.3;
	var_dump($a);
	
	include('b.php');
?>

b.php
<?
	$a = 1.3;
	var_dump($a);
?>

shell>GET http://host/a.php
float(1.3)
float(1)

ru_RU use `,` for decimal separator.

Workaround for this bug:
setlocale(LC_NUMERIC,'C');

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 [2002-06-18 12:26 UTC] sander@php.net 
There's already a report for this: 17105
 [2002-11-10 18:37 UTC] sniper@php.net 
This bug has been fixed in CVS.

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