I'm working on the problem to know the decimal separator defined in the system, on MacOS X and W2K.
Hi Thierry,
While one can use "system date" syntax to find the date separator and order of the month, day, & year elements, I have found no way to determine the Control Panel settings for decimal & thousands separators and the currency symbol via Transcript.
Lacking "system numberFormat" syntax, I created my own solution: All number formatting handlers in Serendipity Library look for a numberEditMask property in the calling stack. If the property is empty, the Library displays a modal "Number Edit Mask" dialog stack to set it. From the dialog the user can enter a one-char thousands separator, a one-char decimal separator, a one to three char currency symbol, and instructions as to whether the currency symbol is prefixed or appended.
I don't particularly like the fact that the user must be prompted for number formatting preferences even when they are already known to the OS; but lacking a means of discovery via Transcript otherwise, what's a mother to do?
Adding system date/time functions was a step in the right direction for localization (except system time doesn't return any time separator other than ":", regardless of the system settings); however the job won't be completely finished until Transcript can also inform the developer what number format is in use on the currently-running system. Until that happens, I humbly offer Serendipity Library's number formatting support:
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