C localization functions: Difference between revisions

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The functions alter the behavior of printf/scanf/strtod which are often used to write saved data to a file or to other programs. The result is that a saved file in one locale will not be readable in another locale, or not be readable ''at all'' due to assumptions such as "numbers end at comma characters". Most large-scale software forces the locale to "C" (or another fixed value) to work around these problems.

Another criticism is that these functions do not address at all the far more important problem of translating text to a different language.{{debatable| reason = unnecessary and overly difficult to implement|date=June 2013}}

==Example==