>
> Add a configuration value decimalSeparator whose value may be dot or
> comma: "," or ".". Bit hard to read... We would also need a
> configuration value groupSeparator.
+1 to this. Accepted values:
- "dot" or "."
- "comma" or ","
- "space" or " "
(it is the case that groupSeparators are spaces sometimes)
Cheers,
Pablo
On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 4:29 PM, Jona Christopher Sahnwaldt <j...@sahnwaldt.de
> wrote:
> Hi Maria,
>
> thanks for the report!
>
> The problem is that the number is displayed with a comma as the
> decimal separator, but in the source text of the page [1], the decimal
> separator is a dot:
>
> | área = 282.569
>
> The template [2] that generates the HTML from the source expects the
> number to use a dot and formats it appropriately for
> Brazilian/Portuguese:
>
> {{formatnum:{{{área}}}}}
>
> To fix this problem, we will have to extend our extraction framework,
> so that users can specify which decimal separator is used in the
> values of a certain template property.
>
> @developers: We will have to discuss what's the best way to do this...
>
> - Add a configuration value decimalSeparator whose value may be dot or
> comma: "," or ".". Bit hard to read... We would also need a
> configuration value groupSeparator.
>
> - Add a configuration value numberFormat that takes a language code,
> in this case "en".
>
> - Add a configuration value numberFormat that takes a decimal
> separator and a group separator: ".,". Bit hard to read...
>
> Any other ideas?
>
> JC
>
> [1] http://pt.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rio_Rufino&action=edit
> [2]
> http://pt.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Predefinição:Info/Município_do_Brasil&action=edit
> [3]
> http://mappings.dbpedia.org/index.php/Mapping_pt:Info/Município_do_Brasil#.C3.A1rea
>
> On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 1:06 PM, María Poveda <mpov...@fi.upm.es> wrote:
> > Hello everybody,
> >
> > I was having a look at DBpedia data about cities as for example the
> area
> > total property. I would like to know how do you deal with different
> decimal
> > separators and grouping separators between countries. For example I found
> > that in http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rio_Rufino the area total is
> 282,569
> > km² and I think the "," is a decimal separator according to the Brazilian
> > convention [1] . However in the DBpedia dataset I found the following
> value:
> > 2.82569E11. My guess is that separator is being used as grouping
> separator
> > as it is the convention in United Kingdom [2] for example.
> >
> > I would be very thankful if you can enlighten me.
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > María
> >
> > [1]
> >
> http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/forms/v3r0m0/topic/com.ibm.help.forms.doc/locale_spec/i_xfdl_r_formats_pt_BR.html
> > [2]
> >
> http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/forms/v3r0m0/topic/com.ibm.help.forms.doc/locale_spec/i_xfdl_r_formats_en_GB.html
> >
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