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 <[email protected]> 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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