[Gambas-user] Format$ thousand separator

[Epíleg]

En/na Benoit Minisini ha escrit:
> On mercredi 19 décembre 2007, Epíleg wrote:
>> En/na Benoit Minisini ha escrit:
>>> On mercredi 19 décembre 2007, Benoit Minisini wrote:
>>>> On mercredi 19 décembre 2007, Epíleg wrote:
>>>>> Hello,
>>>>>
>>>>> I do not get the thousand separator whit the «format$» function, some
>>>>> examples:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> PRINT Format$(1000000, "$$,#.00")  =>  EUR 1 000 000,00
>>>>>
>>>>> PRINT Format$(1000000, "$,#.00")  =>  € 1 000 000,00
>>>>>
>>>>> PRINT Format$(1000000, ",#.00")  =>  1000000,00
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> What I'm doing wrong?
>>>>>
>>>>> These tests are done in a Ubuntu Gutsy (7.10) with «ca_ES.UTF-8» locale
>>>>>
>>>>> Regards,
>>>>> Epíleg.
>>>> Apparently, this is a bug!
>>> The last revision now takes thousand separators into account.
>>>
>>> But be careful that in the GNU locales, many languages have thousand
>>> separators only for currencies.
>>>
>>> So, when a locale does not have any thousands separator, a space is used,
>>> and the value is splitted each three digits. Maybe this is a bad idea
>>> that will be removed in the future!
>>>
>>> Regards,
>> Thanks!
>>
>> In an Ubuntu 7.10 with locale en_US.UTF-8 and en_GB.UTF-8, the thousand
>> separator works fine also with numbers, but with locale ca_ES.UTF-8 and
>> es_ES.UTF-8 do not works with numbers (spaces added). In both cases the
>> currencies thousand separator works fine.
>>
>> Excuse my ignorance but in an Open Office Spread document, format function
>> works correctly with numbers and currencies in all of above locale and I
>> don't know why.
>>
>> Thanks a lot,
>> Epíleg.
>>
> 
> The locale information is stored in /usr/share/locale/XXX where XXX is the 
> contents of the LC_* environment variable. 
> 
> Gambas uses this information through the standard Unix API. If I set my 
> environment to es_ES, then I have no standard thousands separator, and a 
> point for currency thousands separator.
> 
> Maybe Open Office does not use this information. Maybe it uses it, but patches 
> it as Gambas does.
> 
> For example, KDE uses its own locale information, in 
> the /usr/share/locale/l10n/xxx/entry.desktop file.
> 
> Regards,
> 

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