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by revelation 4086 days ago
Calling setlocale because the user you're currently processing has a different locale? What the..?

Notice: what works in UNIX utilities is not what works for web apps serving many users simultaneously. In fact, I'm pretty sure this doesn't work for UNIX utilities either and is just something you should never touch with your libc. It's like calling non-reentrant strtok, some of this stuff just doesn't exactly fit into todays world.
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zerocrates 4086 days ago
The PHP library is (surprise!) sort of a mess when it comes to things that use the libc locale (which tend to offer no other way of switching locale or encoding), things that use the locale settings from the intl extension, things that respect the default_charset setting (and/or the input_encoding setting, output_encoding setting, or internal_encoding setting), and things that actually take one or more of these settings as arguments.
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josegonzalez 4086 days ago
It ends up changing the output of icu-based libraries, localizing stuff like number formatting. Otherwise you're re-implementing that in userland code, which is likely to be much slower.
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