On Tuesday 29 July 2008 09.54:54 Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: > > A Russian user raised the issue in the fpGUI newsgroups... fpGUI uses > UTF-8 as the internal string encoding. He noticed that the File Dialog > which displays the file sizes with thousand separators were totally > blank. On further investigation he noticed that it was FormatFloat() > that caused the issue. FormatFloat uses the ThousandSeparator locale > variable. > > In FPC the ThousandSeparator is of type Char which can only hold one > byte. Yet the Russian locale uses the non-breaking space character as > expressed in UTF-8 as 'C2 A0' (bytes) and takes up 2 bytes. So how do > we assign the Russian ThousandSeparator (U+00A0) in FPC to the > ThousandSeparator variable? > MSEgui has a widestring version of the FormatFloat function (lib/common/kernel/mseformatstr.pas formatfloatmse). There were no bug reports from Russian users, so it seems to work, although I did not test the U+00A0 ThousandSeparator...
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