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Asked: 2026-05-23T13:43:49+00:00

How can you make mysql understand non-English decimal points in integer/float fields? setLocale(LC_ALL, ‘da_DK.ISO-8859-1’);

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How can you make mysql understand non-English decimal points in integer/float fields?

setLocale(LC_ALL, 'da_DK.ISO-8859-1');

eg:

0,25 will be inserted as 0
0.25 will be inserted as 0.25
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  1. Editorial Team

    One of the reasons you can’t do that is that the comma , is used for separating field-values in INSERT statements.

    INSERT INTO a(b,c) VALUES (3,4,5) would be ambiguous.

    Should it result into b=3.4 , c=5 or b=3 , c=4.5 ?

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