On Dec 12, 2006, at 15:36, Anne van Kesteren wrote:
On Tue, 12 Dec 2006 14:31:23 +0100, Henri Sivonen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
why does finding a number in text [1] insist on "." as a decimal
seperator, when , is also very commonly used?
I think the format should be kept simple (and potentially
politically incorrect), because the human-readability is only a
legacy fallback issue. That is, users aren't exposed to the number
formatting in UAs that actually implement progress bars and gauges.
You might also want to use this algorithm for the proposed
class="price". In that case you really want to take into account
"," as well.
What would 2,500 mean? Would it mean two and a half or two-thousand-
five-hundred?
How can this be dealt with without making the parsing dependent on
lang and requiring the UAs to implement all-encompassing CLDR-aware
number parsing?
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Henri Sivonen
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://hsivonen.iki.fi/
