Andrew W. Nosenko wrote: > On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 5:12 PM, Carlos Pereira > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Andrew W. Nosenko wrote: >> > What you need to do indeed: >> > 1. use locale-dependent formatting in the UI (both for input and output) >> > 2. use locale-INDEPENDENT formatting when you read and save your data >> files. >> So you are saying that interfaces should use dots, commas, whatever is >> locally defined, but files should always be in dots. I am not sure I >> agree with this. >> >> My users are actively encouraged to read and modify XML and other text-based >> formats, and it looks quite odd to force users to edit files in dots, >> while at the >> same time they are allowed to use whatever they like in the interface. >> > > For case of XML you just have no chiose, at least if XML Schema is used. > http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlschema-2/#decimal > just mandates dots for "decimal" and, as consequence, for "float" and > "double". > > For another formats text-based formats... Using of the one and the > same notation will reduce errors. I remember case when I misread > "12,345" (US notation) as 12.345 instead of "12 tousands 345" just > because my native locale (Russian) uses comma as decimal separator. > And I expect that nearly to all US people just don't recognize > "12 345" as an _one_ decimal number at all (Russian uses space as > tousand separator). > > Therefore, cross locale data transfer in an locale dependent format is > a bad thing. > Thank you very much for your opinion, and for pointing the XML schema specification on this,
they were certainly quite useful, Carlos _______________________________________________ gtk-app-devel-list mailing list gtk-app-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-app-devel-list
