I can confirm that some of the almanac values (right ascension,
declination, among others) are returned as simple numbers, not
ValueHelpers, so they are not subject to locale formatting. That's a bug.

I should be able to fix it for V5.

On Thu, May 4, 2023 at 12:26 AM [email protected] <
[email protected]> wrote:

> Yes, in the particular case (the Standard skin mentioned above) I am sure.
> There is a script, but it is dealing with NOAA data files. The same thing
> seems to occur with the Seasons skin as well. And with the skin I maintain.
> The OS locale seems to have an effect on how number values are formatted,
> which results in mixed presentation of number values under certain
> circumstances.
>
> p q schrieb am Mittwoch, 3. Mai 2023 um 19:41:53 UTC+2:
>
>> Are you sure? I use javascript on my weewx pages - do to simple things
>> like rotate through a set of photos. I also use the steelseries gauges that
>> are all javascript running in the browser. Is there a reason you can't
>> embed javascript to grab the locale from the browser and do the formatting?
>>
>> On Wed, May 3, 2023 at 9:59 AM [email protected] <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Doesn't apply here since the browser gets static HTML, produced by weewx
>>> on a (potentially) remote machine different from the webserver, the HTML is
>>> downloaded from. I am looking for a way to tell weewx to format number
>>> values for an internationalized skin in a certain way. As far as I know,
>>> only the language can be set for an internationalized skin, not the locale.
>>>
>>> p q schrieb am Mittwoch, 3. Mai 2023 um 17:18:09 UTC+2:
>>>
>>>> In my professional life I ask my devs to get the locale from the
>>>> browser and use the tech stack to do the conversion automatically. Like
>>>> JavaScript  .toLocaleString().
>>>>
>>>> Don't know if that's feasible here.
>>>>
>>>> On Wed, May 3, 2023, 8:07 AM [email protected] <[email protected]>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I need a hint how to handle formatting numbers (values) with
>>>>> internationalized skins. Specifying the language doesn't have an apparent
>>>>> effect on how values are formatted, it seems like number value formatting
>>>>> is connected to the systems (default?) locale. I even notice inconsistent
>>>>> results, for instance with the standard skin: temperature is formatted in
>>>>> another way than an alamnac value: in the specific case the temperature
>>>>> value is formatted with a comma as decimal separator, the almanac angle
>>>>> with a period as decimal separator.
>>>>>
>>>>> Is there a way to specifiy a locale to be used for a skin (or a
>>>>> translated skin)? [image: 2023-05-03 17_01_24.png]
>>>>>
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