Parsing floats fails when using locales with a decimal separator different than `.`
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We had a report that truffleruby does not work with LANG=cs_CZ.UTF-8 (which uses , instead of . as the decimal separator):
$ LANG=en_US.UTF-8 ruby -e 'p 3.4'
3.4
$ LANG=cs_CZ.UTF-8 ruby -e 'p 3.4'
truffleruby: -e:1: could not parse the float '3.4' (SyntaxError)
$ LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8 ruby -e 'p 3.4'
truffleruby: -e:1: could not parse the float '3.4' (SyntaxError)
This is related to how TruffleRuby sets the locale and how Prism depends on it for strtod: ruby/prism#2638