[Libreoffice-ux-advise] [Bug 144978] Decimal point - Should not be dependent of language

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=144978

--- Comment #13 from Mike Kaganski <mikekaganski at hotmail.com> ---
(In reply to S.Zosgornik from comment #12)
> (In reply to Mike Kaganski from comment #11)
> 
> > Are you talking about the same thing? (I doubt that - or I misunderstand
> > someone.)
> 
> I merely speak about the input method as the OP reported. Of course the
> provided option covers 95+ percent of cases
> but take the case an UK citizen wants to write an offering for the European
> main land or vise versa. Neither the system defaults
> nor LO's locale settings would provide the comma to him.

This is misconception.
When a UK citizen wants to "write an offering" (whatever that might mean) for
someone who uses a different locale, they would need two *different* things to
happen:

1. The author's input be correctly *interpreted* as number;
2. The number be *displayed* using correct locale's settings.

These two things are totally separate. And the UK citizen would use the *same*
input when they type numbers; they would use decimal dot, according to *their*
locale, as they are accustomed to; doing otherwise, and trying to type numbers
using conventions not native to the author would make the typing task much more
difficult, slow and error-prone. So the author would use decimal dot, as usual.

But to display the numbers, the author would just select cells and mark their
number formats with the target locale. And that would do everything needed to
display decimal comma: just choose e.g. German (Germany) as cells' number
format.

So no, there's no fundamental deficiency here. Having additional flexibility
*might* be useful, but *in most cases* (not all, I admit), the desire to have
that flexibility is just a sign of not knowing your tool.

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