I asked the Flash Player team, and one of the engineers told me that a period is always interpreted as a decimal point, regardless of the OS locale.
Gordon Smith Adobe Flex SDK Team ________________________________ From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dave Glasser Sent: Friday, May 30, 2008 7:19 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [flexcoders] Is String to Number conversion locale-specific? I'd like to know what effect a computer's locale might have on String to Number conversion in AS3. Specifically, in locales that use a comma as a decimal separator rather than a period, do the various conversion methods (Number() function, parseNumber(), Number() class constructor) treat the comma as a decimal separator? None of the documentation I've read addresses this issue, and all of the examples use periods as the decimal separator. I suspect that periods in strings will always be treated as decimal separators (and that's the behavior I want) but I'd like to know for sure. PS, sorry that this is not a Flex-specific question, but I posted it to the AS3 forum on Adobe.com yesterday, and it doesn't look like it's going to get a response.
