[ic] locale - apply changes - where do the pennies go?

[Mike Heins]

Quoting Stefan Hornburg (Racke) (racke@linuxia.de):
> On 15 Jan 2003 10:55:19 -0500
> John Matecsa <matecsaj@picassofish.com> wrote:
> 
> > Since I've been using locale features to dynamically switch between
> > French and English with Interchange 4.8.6 I've had a puzzling problem.
> 
> Please specify "dynamically switch".
> 
> > 
> > In the back end, if I "apply changes", the pennies on item prices in the
> > back and front end are truncated to zero. This affects more than just
> > the catalog that changes were applied too. As soon as I restart
> > Interchange the pennies come back. The problem runs deeper than currency
> > presentation, items sold, are recorded with pennies truncated to zero in
> > the database.
> > 
> > Note that I've added rows to the locale table, but haven't deleted or
> > modified what was there to begin with.
> > 
> > Any suggestions?
> 
> I'm pretty sure that Interchange is buggy with switching locales. There are
> a number of reports which describe odd behaviour of Interchange, especially
> dropping fractional numbers. For one thing, you cannot switch the currency
> twice on an Interchange page without wreaking havoc. Though I'm really
> interested in Interchange's i18n features, I fear I cannot do much about
> it due to limited resources.

I believe these problems go away completely if you just set LC_ALL to "C"
before starting Interchange.

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Mike Heins
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