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------- Additional comments from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fri Jul 8 04:50:12 -0700 2005 ------- Folks, we can argue about this over and over again, but people commenting on this should at least read and _understand_ the discussion in the predecessor issue 39898 and not blow up this issue with the same things again, like > 2. the locale or language of the data being imported. With HTML there is no locale associated with the data. > In HTML/XML there is an entity that defines the language of the data, > namely the "lang" variable. Exactly, the _language_, but not the locale. Only for the cases where a language is clearly assigned to just and only one locale using this element would be possible. And most times the element isn't even present. So nothing we could rely on. > This defines the value of the decimal and thousands separator, No, it doesn't. > which are language defined. No, they aren't. They are defined per _locale_. > Eg for Danish it is defined in the Danish orthography specification > "Retskrivningsordbogen" that comma is used as the decimal separator. Just because Danish is used almost only in Denmark and its regions. > Likewise for English it is always the period that is used. By coincidence. For French, for example, it is a period in France (fr_FR), but a comma in Switzerland (fr_CH). Same for Spanish, different separators in many different countries. Ok, back to something productive: I offered my "solution" in the comment of Wed Jun 29 05:39:15 -0700 2005. With that hack I will _not_ implement a different default that would break already existing documents with links to data that rely on the current behavior _unless_ User Experience / Program Management tell me to do so. If we can't agree we will have to postpone this for OOo2.0.1 or later to do a full-blown solution with UI and such. Eike --------------------------------------------------------------------- Please do not reply to this automatically generated notification from Issue Tracker. Please log onto the website and enter your comments. http://qa.openoffice.org/issue_handling/project_issues.html#notification --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
