Maybe we should take it out to match my documentation! -- Craig
On Wed, Nov 27, 2013 at 10:00 AM, Erik Hetzner <[email protected]> wrote: > At Wed, 27 Nov 2013 06:44:02 -0700, > Craig Earls wrote: >> >> Ledger's default is period decimal. Failure to parse comma decimal without >> --decimal-comma is not a bug. Although I believe it should fail better. >> You can define decimal comma in your initialization file so that you don;t >> have to type it from the command line. > Hi Craig, > ledger does do detection to try to figure out what format the amount > is in. It is this detection that seems to be failing when the number > of digits following the comma is evenly divisible by 3. You can see > this by comparing how > Assets:Bitcoin:Local 0,000098BTC > and: > Assets:Bitcoin:Local 0,0000980BTC > ^ extra 0 > are parsed. > (Personally, I find code like this fragile and tend to just prefer the > user tell me, via LC_NUMERIC or some such how numerals are formatted. > After all, how are we to distinguish `1,012BTC`?) But the code to try > to figure this out is there. > -Erik > -- > Sent from my free software system <http://fsf.org/>. -- --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ledger" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
