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== Locales == | == Locales == | ||
Converting strings to numbers when the decimal separator is not '.' | Converting strings to numbers when the decimal separator is not '.' | ||
== The state of Octave == | |||
Octave "by accident" supports UTF-8, meaning that the vast majority of functions for text display and graph manipulations are using 8-bits chars, passing them unmodified to the underlying layers in charge of rendering. | |||
Functions like 'length' and size return the space required for string storage, which may be greater than the effective number of symbols. | |||
Tests like 'isalpha' are modelled as their lower-layers C counterpart and are not aware of UTF-8 nor locales | |||
String search should be OK provided the two arguments are UTF-8 | |||
Strings concatenation works with respect to UTF-8 | |||
Displaying strings works in most circumstances except help message (bug report and patch recently provided) | |||