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[Bug] Decimal Comma vs Period in purchase price |
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Registered: March 18, 2007 | Posts: 426 |
| Posted: | | | | A warning to all those who want to keep track of the price paid. You may call this a bug or a feature, but apparently 3.0 is picky on whether you use a , or . as the decimal symbol. Yesterday, I found out that all my purchase details were simply empty, the price was missing and the shop details were empty. I finally figured out that this was caused by me entering decimals with a dot rather than a comma. I assume 3.0 uses the regional settings of your Windows (I have dutch) but it should at least give you a warning instead of just quietly accepting your entry and just throwing it away. Fortunately I discovered it this soon and still had the receipts of our recent purchases... | | | Last edited: by hevanw |
| Registered: March 13, 2007 | Posts: 670 |
| Posted: | | | | Don't you use commas in dutch too? I thought USA was the only country that used comma as thousand-seperator and the dot for decimals - for some reason the americans insists on doing almost everything opposite of how the rest of the world does it... | | | The future is here. It's just not widely distributed yet. (William Gibson) |
| Registered: March 18, 2007 | Posts: 426 |
| Posted: | | | | Yes, normally we use commas for decimals and dots for thousands. But with computers, a lot of us use the dot when entering decimal numbers for the simple reason that a lot of keyboards have a dot in the numeric keypad rather than a comma. So that's why I was entering everything with a dot instead of a comma. |
| Registered: March 13, 2007 | Posts: 670 |
| Posted: | | | | If I set my Windows to english keyboard layout, the key in the numeric keypad makes i dot. When I set it to danish, it makes a comma.
So it does follow the keyboard layout you set in Windows, along with any special characters there may be in your language... | | | The future is here. It's just not widely distributed yet. (William Gibson) |
| Registered: March 13, 2007 | Posts: 793 |
| Posted: | | | | Quoting Rander: Quote: I thought USA was the only country that used comma as thousand-seperator and the dot for decimals - for some reason the americans insists on doing almost everything opposite of how the rest of the world does it... Nope, we use the same system in the UK too Our speedometers are also primarily in miles, and also our road signs. Again, same as the US. Or they're the same as us | | | Last edited: by Squirrelecto |
| Registered: March 18, 2007 | Posts: 426 |
| Posted: | | | | Quoting Rander: Quote: If I set my Windows to english keyboard layout, the key in the numeric keypad makes i dot. When I set it to danish, it makes a comma. So it does follow the keyboard layout you set in Windows, along with any special characters there may be in your language... I will check again tonight, but maybe DVD Profiler decides on comma vs dot based on your locality, which for me is set to Belgium. In any case, the correct behavior should be that an error is popped up when the entered price cannot be parsed. Even better would be that it is flexible and accepts both a comma and a dot. |
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