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

[Stefan Hornburg]

On Wed, 15 Jan 2003 17:10:00 -0500
Mike Heins <mike@perusion.com> wrote:

> 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.

Switching the currency twice on a page won't work flawlessly regardless of this
setting. This is a bug and I reported it in an earlier posting to interchange-core,
I guess. Not easy to fix though.

Ciao
        Racke