Re: [Fwd: Re: [whatwg] simple numbers]

> The third table has been formatted according to Swedish  
> conventions. However, a speech reader would not spell out words  
> like million and thousand, making those numbers harder to grasp.


I'm curious: Is that because the spaces between the number groupings  
in Swedish are harder for the software to interpret than the commas  
between the American/English style? I have the American localization  
of Mac OS X, and it had no problem reading 1,000,000 as "one  
million", using the text-selection-to-speech service of the OS. I  
wonder if the Swedish localization of OS X would do any better on the  
"1 000 000". If so, this implies that other speech readers for the  
sight impaired just generally suck.

On Jan 6, 2008, at 10:36 AM, Keryx Web wrote:

>
> fantasai skrev:
>
>> Lars, I think your point about needing to separate such formatting  
>> from the
>> markup makes sense. Could you summarize
>>   a) your arguments for why a number format function is needed
>>   b) proposed functionality
>>   c) a couple markup + expected results examples
>> I'd like to put it here:
>>   http://csswg.inkedblade.net/ideas/content-formatting
>> (you can edit that yourself if you like)
>
> Done
>
> See also http://keryx.se/dev/css3/number-format-1.xhtml (in Firefox  
> or Safari b3 - It's a true XHTML file that uses XSLT identity  
> transformation)
>
> Use http://keryx.se/dev/css3/number-format-1-static.html for other  
> browsers or to see the truly intended result...
>
>
> Lars Gunther
>