[Libreoffice] Calc usability improvements

Kohei Yoshida kyoshida at novell.com
Fri Nov 12 06:25:38 PST 2010


On Fri, 2010-11-12 at 15:08 +0100, Rolf Gloor wrote:
> Am 12.11.2010 11:32, schrieb Michael Meeks:
> 
> > 	Kohei (or was it Jody) fixed this many moons ago; I believe the default
> > is set to improve usability here in LibreOffice; I too fell over this as
> > my first step using calc (as an en_US user). Of course - our patch
> > 'fixes' this only for locales where it makes sense : eg. English. for
> > (eg.) German&  French - it remains ';' for separator since ',' is a
> > decimal separator there. 3,5 (de) == 3.5 (en)
> 
> Just keep in mind, that there are different conventions in different 
> (de) speaking countries.
> 
> While "," might be correct for de_DE, it is commonly "." for de_CH.

Yup, that is accounted for when choosing the default setting.

Kohei

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