Insert non-English decimal points in mysql

Question

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

Answer 1

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 ?

Answer 2

Numbers aren't affected by locale settings (same in SQL Server too).

So you'd have to send as "0.25"