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------- Additional comments from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wed Jun 29 09:57:57 -0700 2005 ------- First of all please accept my sincere apology. I have tested my patch a bit more and in e.g. a French locale the en_US number "1,234.56" would not be recognised correctly with my patch. I now agree that this is unnecessary feature loss for non en_US and non German locale alike users. I should have specified in the patch that the en_US assumption should be disabled only in locales using "." as thousands separator and "," as decimal (e.g. da_DK and de_DE). However, this discovery contradicts people that say the en_US assumption affects locales using " " (space) as thousands separator and "," as decimal. Can anyone explain or elaborate? Regarding the described solution, I strongly suggest default behavior should respect the locale setting which would align Calc with spreadsheets like Quattro Pro and Excel. Yes, that would force some existing users to set an environment variable but all the new users of SO and OOo will be able to migrate to Calc without experiencing serious defects like 1.000 being recognised as 1. I honestly cannot see how you can change existing behavior (ie. assume en_US when recognising 1.000) to the desired behavior (ie. respect locale when recognising 1.000) without breaking legacy. The forthcoming major release and the implementation of a new document standard is an obvious window of opportunity to correct the misinterpretation of 1.000 = 1 in e.g. German and Danish locales. The misinterpretation of 1.000 should be fixed before the legacy expands to OpenDocument files and new users. And consequently before an inevitable correction would break a much bigger legacy. The locale setting must be reinstalled as the dominant locale setting. The sooner the better. Søren --------------------------------------------------------------------- Please do not reply to this automatically generated notification from Issue Tracker. Please log onto the website and enter your comments. http://qa.openoffice.org/issue_handling/project_issues.html#notification --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
