[Nagiosplug-devel] Performance output in different locales

[Hendrik Baecker]

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Thomas Guyot-Sionnest schrieb:
> On 16/12/08 05:10 AM, Holger Weiss wrote:
>> * Ton Voon <ton.voon at opsera.com> [2008-12-15 23:15]:
>>> As part of internationalisation, the plugin output should be
>>> localised, but I'm thinking that the performance data should
> always be
>>> in LC_NUMERIC=C.
>> Definitely.  Localization makes sense only for output which is
> intended
>> to be read by humans, which is not the case for performance data.
>>
>
> +1. We must avoid localization on performance data output, although
> it should be OK to "unofficially" accept non-standard locales as
> long as it doesn't prevent us from properly parsing
> standard-compliant strings.
>
+1
Sum: +2
Unlike the rest of the english speaking world, we have support trouble
with PNP if a user used to take locale de_DE for his nagios user.
In that case the perfdata are with "," instead of dots.

Please, please, please, decrease our support calls ;))
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