#35095: Monetary values in Switzerland discrepancy
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Reporter: Andrea Angelini | Owner: Annabelle
Type: | Wiegart
Cleanup/optimization | Status: assigned
Component: | Version: 5.0
Internationalization |
Severity: Normal | Resolution:
Keywords: | Triage Stage: Accepted
Has patch: 1 | Needs documentation: 0
Needs tests: 0 | Patch needs improvement: 0
Easy pickings: 1 | UI/UX: 0
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Comment (by Annabelle Wiegart):
I think we all agree that the comma is used often as a decimal separator
in Switzerland for general numbers (e.g. in official documents), as stated
in the code comments. (By the way, I'm also Swiss). As you pointed out in
comment:16, Django does not allow differentiation between monetary and
other numeric values. What would you suggest? Leaving the comma as the
decimal separator in de_CH and fr_CH locales?
I would go for the localization settings of the major operating systems
and change the decimal separator to a dot (as in the pull request).
comment:23 also suggests that the comma can be misleading.
Replying to [comment:36 Claude Paroz]:
> I'm still not convinced about using the dot everywhere. See for example
this official page for the Vaud canton (https://www.vd.ch/cha/bic/usages-
typographiques):
> **Virgules avant les décimales**
> La fraction d’un nombre est séparée de ce dernier par une virgule
> (le point est utilisé dans les systèmes anglo-saxons).
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