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| author | Dr. Jürgen Sauermann <mail@xn--jrgen-sauermann-zvb.de> | 2022-07-19 16:54:46 +0200 |
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| committer | Alejandro Colomar <alx.manpages@gmail.com> | 2022-07-19 16:56:10 +0200 |
| commit | 990dc2e94d05dc056f56764cf3decdc478aa7782 (patch) | |
| tree | e8c1bc7054d483bba5564773de3039b78d0a65d6 | |
| parent | 917068a826b1d137827afc8728c0e841773668cb (diff) | |
printf.3: Note about thousands grouping and the C locale
Signed-off-by: Alejandro Colomar <alx.manpages@gmail.com>
| -rw-r--r-- | man3/printf.3 | 5 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/man3/printf.3 b/man3/printf.3 index e7cd6222b..0fb54bc5a 100644 --- a/man3/printf.3 +++ b/man3/printf.3 @@ -382,6 +382,11 @@ Note that many versions of cannot parse this option and will issue a warning. (SUSv2 did not include \fI%\(aqF\fP, but SUSv3 added it.) +Note also that the default locale of a C program is "C" +whose locale information indicates no thousands' grouping character. +Therefore, without a prior call to +.BR setlocale (3), +no thousands' grouping characters will be printed. .PP glibc 2.2 adds one further flag character. .TP |