Subject: bug#7829: locale-related printf bug when using formats with thousands grouping character

From: Assaf Gordon <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2018 19:51:24 -0600

tags 7829 fixed
close 7829
stop

(triaging old bugs)

On 12/01/11 06:58 AM, Eric Blake wrote:
> Ouch - coreutils' printf is also affected:
> 
> $ /usr/bin/printf %\'.2f\\n 999.9998 999999.9998 1000000
> 1000.00
> ,000,000.00
> 1,000,000.00
> 
> At least printf(1) already uses the xprintf-posix module, so hopefully
> this gets fixed once gnulib works around the glibc bug.

I just verified this works fine with recent coreutils version, so closing.

-assaf