#13618: Haiku lacks support for a locale-sensitive decimal point.
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Reporter: owenca | Owner: pulkomandy
Type: bug | Status: closed
Priority: normal | Milestone: R1/beta1
Component: | Version: R1/Development
Kits/Locale Kit | Keywords: BFormattingConventions,
Resolution: no change | BFloatFormat,
required | BGenericNumberFormat::FractionSeparator()
Blocked By: | Blocking:
Has a Patch: 0 | Platform: All
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Changes (by pulkomandy):
* status: new => closed
* resolution: => no change required
Comment:
After discussing this on IRC and some research, the decimal point support
is working fine, however:
* you need to select a locale in the "formatting" tab in locale
preferences. This is independant from the language so that numbers always
use the same format, no matter which language are available in the apps
you run. Switching from YY/MM/YYYY to MM/DD/YYYY, or from dot as decimal
and thousand separator, could lead to confusion, so a single setting for
number format is desirable.
* strtod and other C functions will ignore the settings unless the LC_*
environment variables are set (not the case for GUI apps by default). But,
using the Locale Kit (BNumberFormat in this case) will work fine.
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Ticket URL: <https://dev.haiku-os.org/ticket/13618#comment:3>
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