Re: setlocale

On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 03:31:37PM -0700, Simon Marlow wrote:

Setting the locale *might* have side-effects, for instance we noticed before that heap profiling broke in some locales because the RTS code to generate the .hp file was using fprintf to print numbers, and the number format depends on the locale.

You could avoid this by setting LC_CTYPE instead of LC_ALL.