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Niels Lohmann 9d88ead578 Clarify that the strtold fallback substitutes the locale's decimal point
Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>
2026-10-01 07:40:37 +02:00
@@ -73,9 +73,11 @@ otherwise, it uses unsigned integer storage.
- The number types can be changed, see [Template number types](#template-number-types).
- The library converts integers and floating-point numbers itself, independent of the locale. Floating-point
numbers are correctly rounded (to nearest, ties to even). Only a `#!c long double` that is not IEEE 754 binary64
(e.g., the 80-bit x87 format) is converted with `#!cpp std::from_chars` where available, or with
[`std::strtold`](https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/string/byte/strtof), which gets the decimal point of the
current locale, also one longer than one byte (e.g., in `fa_IR.UTF-8`).
(e.g., the 80-bit x87 format) is converted with `#!cpp std::from_chars` where available, or else with
[`std::strtold`](https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/string/byte/strtof). For that call, the library temporarily
replaces the `.` with the decimal point of the current locale (which may be longer than one byte, e.g., in
`fa_IR.UTF-8`), so the result does not depend on the locale either. Changing the locale in another thread during
parsing is undefined behavior of the C library, though.
!!! example "Examples"