From 3a6a84b79bd0f4f53dd771e4ff5da2fb18ec4467 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: stronk7 <stronk7>
Date: Sun, 6 Apr 2008 15:30:17 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Enforce DOT as decimal separator for Oracle. MDL-11629

---
 lib/dmllib.php | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/lib/dmllib.php b/lib/dmllib.php
index 7891246d4c9..d55c3612a16 100644
--- a/lib/dmllib.php
+++ b/lib/dmllib.php
@@ -2266,6 +2266,10 @@ function configure_dbconnection() {
         /// NOTE: Not 100% useful because GPC has been addslashed with the setting off
         ///       so IT'S MANDATORY TO ENABLE THIS UNDER php.ini or .htaccess for this DB
         ///       or to turn off magic_quotes to allow Moodle to do it properly
+        /// Now set the decimal separator to DOT, Moodle & PHP will always send floats to
+        /// DB using DOTS. Manually introduced floats (if using other characters) must be
+        /// converted back to DOTs (like gradebook does)
+            $db->Execute("ALTER SESSION SET NLS_NUMERIC_CHARACTERS='.,'");
             break;
     }
 }