From 9d88867d0fc2c5c71200930d87f2740e09df8d63 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: stronk7 <stronk7>
Date: Sun, 6 Apr 2008 15:44:48 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Enforce DOT as decimal separator for Oracle. MDL-11629 ;
 backported from HEAD

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

diff --git a/lib/dmllib.php b/lib/dmllib.php
index 677e42770b1..f754f4dc2f3 100644
--- a/lib/dmllib.php
+++ b/lib/dmllib.php
@@ -2048,6 +2048,10 @@ 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;
     }
 /// Finally define dbfamily