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Number/date formatting to the right locale Uh,... maybe. This may work well for most people, but at least allow me the option of setting up my own format. I ha
by mikro2nd 7y ago
Number/date formatting to the right locale
Uh,... maybe. This may work well for most people, but at least allow me the option of setting up my own format. I happen to live in a locale where the "official" locale-specific formats for numbers and money are almost never used by real people (because they're ugly and fuggly.) So it gets pretty annoying when LibreOffice only recognises it's own list of locales and will only apply the "official" formats. As a result, you can count on the fingers of one head the number of people here who will use "Format > Money". They'll rather use some number format that looks the way locals all expect things to look.
- oeuviz 7y agoJust out of curiosity: do you mind sharing which locale/area this is?
- mikro2nd 7y agoZA
- TeMPOraL 7y agoSeconded. If anything, I'd personally prefer the date to be ISO 8601, because that format is unambiguous and universally readable everywhere people use the Gregorian calendar. As a programmer, using locales for number pisses me off too; in Poland, the decimal separator is a comma instead of a dot. Beyond me being used to the dot, this causes me no end of grief when entering numbers, because a combination of system locale and preferences of particular software makes it unpredictable. There are benefits to universalization and standardization; dates and numbers are obvious targets.
- sethammons 7y ago> ugly and fuggly Fuggly means fucking ugly, or so I have always thought. Is that not how you are using it? It would be odd to call something "ugly and fucking ugly."