Strange behaviour of engines with DBMONEY or DBFORMAT set.

Dear informixers: Does anybody observed this problem? (Specially non-english language people) If you set the environment variables DBMONEY or DBFORMAT to replace the decimal point by comma and viceversa, the behaviour of the engines (SE or OnLine) is altered and cannot correctly find your query on money/decimal/floating point numbers. For example, if you CONSTRUCT a query on a money field named PRICE, and you request Price [>10 ] or Price [>10.0 ] or Price [>10,0 ] the result of the CONSTRUCT will be: price>"10,0" (with quotes), but the engine will SELECT smaller, greater or = values with an unknown criteria. In the other hand, if you dbexport the database, and then dbimport the same data, with the environment variables DBMONEY and/or DBFORMAT set, you will get a database with the money/decimal/floating point numbers multiplied by ten or a hundred. The problem is located on the engines (both), because you get the same results from a 4gl program or dbaccess. SE version 5.00 OL same RDS version 4.12 SCO unix 4.3.4 If you have a solution or a workaround, please let me know. Thank you all. Mario Canto tconsex%ceride.conicet.edu.ar@fpsp.fapesp.br (preferred) tconsex@arcride.edu.ar (UUCP) tconsex@ceride.bitnet (BITNET) Santa Fe Argentina