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- Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2012 01:40:30 +0000
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https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=17918 --- Comment #2 from Norbert Lindenberg <w3-bugs@norbertlindenberg.com> --- Discussed at the Internationalization WG meeting 2012-11-01: What's really causing the confusion is the phrase "User agents must not allow the user to set the value...". If we understand the intent of the spec correctly, the user doesn't set the value at all; instead, the user types a string in a localized format, it gets interpreted and converted to a value, using algorithms that are not specified in HTML. The conversion algorithms discussed in the spec have nothing to do with user input; they handle text that's part of the HTML source or form submissions. The phrase above contradicts this intent and should be fixed. In addition, the note in the section uses a somewhat extreme example (Persian or Arabic numbers), so it's not obvious that more subtle differences also need to be handled, such as different decimal and grouping separators for German or for India. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the bug.
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