Re: [fpc-devel] Regionalisation (Was ThousandSeparator)

2014-11-27 Thread Hans-Peter Diettrich
Michael Thompson schrieb: I hear you, but this issue is so much wider than separators. I know one software package that will only successfully export data to excel if the system regional is one of the "English (xxx)" variations (Australian guaranteed to work, not really played with the rest..

Re: [fpc-devel] Regionalisation (Was ThousandSeparator)

2014-11-27 Thread Ralf Quint
On 11/27/2014 9:09 AM, peter green wrote: Hans-Peter Diettrich wrote: But back to the original problem: I managed to create another user, whose number format settings match the expections of the Ez-Builder, while using my German keyboard. For Linux users this may sound like an easy job, but

[fpc-devel] Regionalisation (Was ThousandSeparator)

2014-11-27 Thread peter green
Hans-Peter Diettrich wrote: 2) Formatted numbers, as enterd by the user (maybe by copy&paste from other applications), can have various encodings. Before a conversion into binary values I'd remove all unexpected characters, except for the last (rightmost) '.' or ',', which then becomes the deci

[fpc-devel] Regionalisation (Was ThousandSeparator)

2014-11-26 Thread Michael Thompson
On 26 November 2014 at 23:54, Hans-Peter Diettrich wrote: > Conclusion: > Proper handling of separators in formatted numbers is essential, or else > users may run into so big trouble, that they will drop your program as > unusable. > > DoDi > (renamed subject due to change in topic) I hear you,