linux: set LC_NUMERIC to C for all non-browser processes

chrome/app/chrome_main.cc

Index: chrome/app/chrome_main.cc
diff --git a/chrome/app/chrome_main.cc b/chrome/app/chrome_main.cc
index edd4c0d0726f473312d86a8ebb9f41bd3d4b44c0..38019de44a1367f9bfcb497b6fc39dfd07cf335c 100644
--- a/chrome/app/chrome_main.cc
+++ b/chrome/app/chrome_main.cc
@@ -372,6 +372,17 @@ void CommonSubprocessInit() {
   MSG msg;
   PeekMessage(&msg, NULL, 0, 0, PM_REMOVE);
 #endif
+#if defined(OS_POSIX) && !defined(OS_MACOSX)
+  // Various things break when you're using a locale where the decimal
+  // separator isn't a period.  See e.g. bugs 22782 and 39964.  For
+  // all processes except the browser process (where we call system
+  // APIs that may rely on the correct locale for formatting numbers
+  // when presenting them to the user), reset the locale for numeric
+  // formatting.
+  // Note that this is not correct for plugin processes -- they can
+  // surface UI -- but it's likely they get this wrong too so why not.
+  setlocale(LC_NUMERIC, "C");

[piman, 2011/01/31 23:11:01]

I'm not sure setting it for plugins is a good idea though... I know Flash at
least looks at LC_NUMERIC.

+#endif
 }
 
 // Returns true if this subprocess type needs the ResourceBundle initialized