[Nagiosplug-devel] Performance output in different locales

[Thomas Guyot-Sionnest]

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On 16/12/08 05:10 AM, Holger Weiss wrote:
> * Ton Voon <ton.voon at opsera.com> [2008-12-15 23:15]:
>> As part of internationalisation, the plugin output should be
>> localised, but I'm thinking that the performance data should always be
>> in LC_NUMERIC=C.
> 
> Definitely.  Localization makes sense only for output which is intended
> to be read by humans, which is not the case for performance data.

+1. We must avoid localization on performance data output, although it
should be OK to "unofficially" accept non-standard locales as long as it
doesn't prevent us from properly parsing standard-compliant strings.

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Thomas
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