Smarty

[alchemyx]

Hello!

In polish language comma is used to separate fractions from the rest. So we write 25,5 and it means twenty five and a half.

It is fine, when it is used when displaying data, but when doing internal things everything should be written using dot. So 25.5 not 25,5.

And now funny thing:
- on glibc 2.2.5 with full locale issuing 70*2.2 returns 140 and 70*"2,2" returns 154 (with locale set to pl_PL)
- on glibc 2.2.5 with removed polish locale 70*2.2 returns 154 as required
- on glibc 2.3.3 with full locale issuing 70*2.2 returns 154 as required.

So I am afraid it is Smarty bug, because doing those calculations under PHP does no harm with any locale set or unset. The bug also appears when you try to embed PHP code with {php} {/php}

Any ideas?

[boots]

Hi alchemyx.

What are you trying to do with Smarty that isn't working? Do you have examples?

FYI: Smarty's in-template math does not observe locale settings as-far-as-I-know -- and I don't expect it to either.

[alchemyx]

Simple sample (what a name!):

{assign var=a value=70}
{assign var=b value=2.2}

{$a*$b}

Output shows: 140 instead of 154.

{assign var=a value=70}
{assign var=b value="2,2"}

{$a*$b}

Output shows 154.

It happens when I have setlocale(LC_ALL, "pl_PL"); in PHP.

[messju]

this is (or better was) a php bug: http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=17079

[alchemyx]

It shows up in funny way . But OK, if it is PHP problem can you tell me in which version it was fixed? According to that bug tracker it was fixed in 4.3.0 and found again.

[messju]

dunno. i had the following phps at hand for testing

4.0.6 (buggy)
4.1.2 (buggy)
4.2.3 (buggy)
4.3.4 (ok)
4.3.5 (ok)
4.3.6 (ok)
4.3.7 (ok)
4.3.9 (ok)

[alchemyx]

OK. It is enough for me, I will make upgrade of PHP. Thanks!