Re: L doesn't seem to be working in to_char()

Bill Moran wrote:
> The user guide says that L should produce the currency symbol as defined
> by the locale.  It doesn't seem to be working for me.
>
> agelis=# select to_char(1257.5, 'LFM999G999G999G999D99');
>   to_char
> ----------
>    1,257.5
> (1 row)
>
> Can anyone confirm that this is a problem, or have I made a mistake
> somewhere?  I'm running 7.4.1 on FreeBSD.

I got it working on FreeBSD 4.9.  The fix was to set lc_monetary
properly:

    template1=# set lc_monetary = 'en_US.ISO8859-1';
    SET
    template1=# select to_char(1257.5, 'LFM999G999G999G999D99');
     to_char
    ----------
     $1,257.5
    (1 row)


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