- From: Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi>
- Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2006 22:21:32 +0200
On Dec 12, 2006, at 15:36, Anne van Kesteren wrote: > On Tue, 12 Dec 2006 14:31:23 +0100, Henri Sivonen <hsivonen at iki.fi> > 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? -- Henri Sivonen hsivonen at iki.fi http://hsivonen.iki.fi/
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