Re: Internationalization of Lua

[mathieu stumpf guntz <psychoslave@...>]

According to the documentation, "all conversions from strings to numbers accept both a dot and the current locale mark as the radix character. (The Lua lexer, however, accepts only a dot.)", so how do you make that works? Here is what I get on a Fedora 24 desktop:

% echo $LANG; lua                                          
fr_FR.UTF-8
Lua 5.3.3  Copyright (C) 1994-2016 Lua.org, PUC-Rio
> "3.14" + 1
4.14
> "3,14" + 1 -- in French the radix character is a comma
stdin:1: attempt to perform arithmetic on a string value
stack traceback:
    stdin:1: in main chunk
    [C]: in ?