Re: Strange Number Format

[Claus Dietrich <claus.dietrich@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Benoît

Thanks a lot!

I'll confirm the fix as soon as it arrived in the OBS.

Best regards, Claus

Am 24.08.26 um 12:49 schrieb Benoît Minisini:
> Le 24/08/2026 à 11:41, Benoît Minisini a écrit :
> > 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...
>
> It should be fixed by commit 
> https://gitlab.com/gambas/gambas/-/commit/f1fbdd9a286bde80df95d4df7141245af3c70ee5. 
>
>
> Regards,