Don't know when it started, but at one point messages weren't going to the list anymore. Since my incoming messages are routed by title [fpc-pascal] they still showed up as coming from the list... Hence the confusion.
> > > The decimal point needs also to be localised ;( > You are correct. I had explicitly left it as a . - must have > taken a , for a . when tired. What a ridiculous idea, to > generate different exports for the same data depending on > what country you are in. > At one time, even VBA was localised. You couldn't run scripts created on a french excel on a german excel fe. > Actually, I might just leave it in US format as a . - this > will at least fix the format and allow import by > US/Anglophone countries. What do you think? (Better yet, I'll > have a look at how newer versions of Access do this, maybe MS > have fixed this since then) > DecimalSeparator is set to the system value in Sysutils and correspond to the machines localisation. You shouldn't hardcode it. > What's also strange is that currency fields don't have a > currency symbol (e.g. €); I've got Dutch settings with . as > thousands separator - no trace of a . in currency output. But > it does output , as a decimal marker, not . Weird. > The currency sign and thousands separators is for display use only. I haven't seen any data format using them. Luckily, that is. The decimal separator is already confusing enough. Ludo _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
