{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"phorkie","provider_url":"https:\/\/p.cweiske.de\/","title":"php german locale + float to string conversion: comma and not dot","author_name":"Christian Weiske","cache_age":86400,"width":900,"height":900,"html":"<!-- embedding all files of https:\/\/p.cweiske.de\/645 -->\n<link rel=\"stylesheet\" href=\"https:\/\/p.cweiske.de\/css\/embed.css\"\/>\n<div class=\"phork\" id=\"645\">\n    <div class=\"phork-file\">\n <div class=\"phork-content\">\n  \n<div class=\"document\">\n\n\n<p>Problem:<\/p>\n<pre class=\"literal-block\">\n$ php -a\nInteractive mode enabled\n\nphp &gt; echo (string) 2.5;\n2.5\n\nphp &gt; setlocale(LC_ALL, 'de_DE.UTF-8');\nphp &gt; echo (string) 2.5;\n2,5\n\nphp &gt; echo (string) var_export(2.5,true);\n2.5\nphp &gt; echo (string) var_export('2.5', true);\n'2.5'\n<\/pre>\n<ul class=\"simple\">\n<li><a class=\"reference external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mail-archive.com\/internals&#64;lists.php.net\/msg95836.html\">https:\/\/www.mail-archive.com\/internals&#64;lists.php.net\/msg95836.html<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"reference external\" href=\"https:\/\/bugs.php.net\/bug.php?id=77278\">https:\/\/bugs.php.net\/bug.php?id=77278<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"reference external\" href=\"https:\/\/gielberkers.com\/floating-point-numbers-in-php-and-your-system-locale\/\">https:\/\/gielberkers.com\/floating-point-numbers-in-php-and-your-system-locale\/<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n <div class=\"phork-meta\">\n  <a href=\"https:\/\/p.cweiske.de\/645\/rev-raw\/4371c76c2075d4564fcbdcb796a2ed058c9efa06\/README.rst\" style=\"float: right\">view raw source<\/a>\n  <a href=\"https:\/\/p.cweiske.de\/645#README.rst\">README.rst<\/a>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n    <div class=\"phork-file\">\n <div class=\"phork-content\">\n  <style type=\"text\/css\">\/**\n * GeSHi (C) 2004 - 2007 Nigel McNie, 2007 - 2014 Benny Baumann\n * (http:\/\/qbnz.com\/highlighter\/ and http:\/\/geshi.org\/)\n *\/\n.php .de1, .php .de2 {font: normal normal 1em\/1.2em monospace; 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