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Sigh. Some of the customer servers are in Belgium: BelgianFrickingNumbers.png

So the thousands separator is the decimal point, and the decimal point is the comma. But othe servers run American internationalisation. Aaaauugh!

Posted by Bill Buchan On 27/06/2008 | Digg This |

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Gravatar Image1 - Been there done that, imagine an Excel export of financial data that requires mega formatting that needs to be run in the UK, US and Italy.Emoticon
Dates, Numbers etc a complete nightmare Emoticon , in the end I simply queried the registry for the relevant language the PC was running and modified the format accordingly.Emoticon

Posted by Graham Tucker At 11:57:54 On 27/06/2008 | - Website - |


Gravatar Image2 - Graham - your lucky in that it runs on a single machine. This badger runs on a workstation, queries servers all over the planet, and produces reports for folks all over the world.

I just rounded everything to the nearest integer, and removed all decimal points and commas.

Sigh


---* Bill

Posted by Wild Bill At 12:31:16 On 27/06/2008 | - Website - |


Gravatar Image3 - Yes, internationalization is SO much fun... LOL... What I do is keep in one central format U.S., then convert for all the others so I have a base to work from...

Have fun...Emoticon

Posted by John Turnbow At 13:12:17 On 27/06/2008 | - Website - |


Gravatar Image4 - Sorry to hear Belgium give you a hard time. We're really nice people (well most of us) Emoticon
And the bloody .,/dmy is a mess, but we learned to live with it. If only Notes had better provisions for number and text formatting (formula and LS).

Posted by Theo Heselmans At 07:53:11 On 28/06/2008 | - Website - |


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