Re: Strange Number Format

[Benoît Minisini <benoit.minisini@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Le 22/08/2026 à 14:47, Claus Dietrich a écrit :
> Question: Why does
>
>    System.Language = "de_CH.utf8"
>    Print Format(1234567.89, "$,##0.00")
>
> deliver 1_234_567.89 ?
>
> It happens with the master as well with 3.22.0 on Linux Mint 22.0 
> Cinnamon. The Swiss language package is fully installed.
>
> The cli command
>
>    LC_NUMERIC=de_CH.UTF-8 printf "%'.2f\n" 1234567.89
>
> correctly delivers 1’234’567.89
>
> Is this a bug ?
>
> A good weekend to all and
>
> best regards
>
> Claus

It's sort of a bug. At the moment, the interpreter only accepts ASCII 
characters as thousand separator, and use '_' when the separator is an 
UTF-8 character.

I will try to fix that...

--
Benoît Minisini.