It's a Android bug.
See http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=2626
On Sep 30, 6:30 pm, Streets Of Boston <flyingdutc...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I think that using the Number.valueOf and Number.toString methods
> should work fine.
>
> The system should deal with the currently installed and active locale.
> Unless you're creating an app that needs to deal with multiple locales
> at the same time or do some fancy formatting, i wouldn't bother much
> with NumberFormats and such. Just let the java core runtime handle it.
>
> On Sep 29, 8:53 pm, Gerald <gerald.b.n...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I have a program that allows users to enter decimal numbers. One user
> > noted that my program requires that he use a period as the decimal
> > separator even though in his country (Germany) they use the comma
> > instead. No problem, I looked at my code and realized I was
> > constructing a DecimalFormat directly instead of using
> > NumberFormat.getInstance() and changed my code as follows:
>
> > formatter = NumberFormat.getNumberInstance();
> > if (formatter instanceof DecimalFormat) {
> > DecimalFormat format = (DecimalFormat)formatter;
> > format.applyPattern(PATTERN);
>
> > }
>
> > I then was going to test it in the emulator and changed my locale to
> > German. While the language changed there was no change to the number
> > format and it still used the period as the decimal separator.
> > Iterating over NumberFormat.getAvailableLocales() I can see that only
> > English and Japan based countries are returned in the emulator and all
> > those countries use the period not the comma.
>
> > Any ideas on how can I test my changes to make sure they work? I can
> > override the decimal separator which works fine for testing the
> > display of numbers, unfortunately the keyboard won't allow me to enter
> > a comma in a numeric field to test the parsing. My personal Android
> > phone only supports English and French. I tried changing it to French
> > but still get the period as the separator, feeling kind of stumped
> > here.
>
>
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