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Fully agree with the author, just like I write Portuguese in European Portuguese, not Brazilian Portuguese, African Portuguese or any other variation, just beca

by pjmlp 4mo ago

Fully agree with the author, just like I write Portuguese in European Portuguese, not Brazilian Portuguese, African Portuguese or any other variation, just because our population is smaller. Incidently I always change automatic language correction tools to English GB, I live in this side of the Atlantic, and that is variant I learnt while growing up.

toolslive 4mo ago
I always put my locale in Ireland: I want - "proper English" - metric system - Euro It's amazing how many web applications give me a broken experience because of it.
- dgellow 4mo ago
  I'm using custom en-CH locales, because I want numbers to use the Swiss format for decimal and thousands, € instead of CHF, standard units, and some version of English :p
  - hibbelig 4mo ago
    How's that going with the numbers? Microsoft had this page where they explained that monetary amounts are formatted one way whereas other numbers are formatted another way. I found that most fascinating, but I don't know whether it matches reality. Also, how does software cope? (Back in the eighties,) I had a teacher who taught both French and geography (I think), and he used the apostrophe as the thousands separator. With a twist. For example, he would write three million as 3'000'000, and then he would abbreviate that to 3''. Very fascinating. I wonder if that was somehow inspired by Swiss conventions.
    - dgellow 4mo ago
      1'234'567.890 :) One billion, two-hundred thirty-four million, five-hundred sixty-seven (the rest are the decimals) I've never seen 3'' but that's a nice shorthand I now live in Germany where the format is confusing to me: 1.234.567,890. It's pretty much the opposite of English format!
    - toolslive 4mo ago
      3e+6 ?
- tialaramex 4mo ago
  That's not a bad hack, thanks
mrkstu 4mo ago
not ‘whilst’? ;)
mghackerlady 4mo ago
The Portuguese speakers really ought to sort out how their language is supposed to work, it was fine before the internet but now I can only see the differences causing trouble

by pjmlp 4mo ago

toolslive 4mo ago

I always put my locale in Ireland: I want - "proper English" - metric system - Euro It's amazing how many web applications give me a broken experience because of it.

dgellow 4mo ago
I'm using custom en-CH locales, because I want numbers to use the Swiss format for decimal and thousands, € instead of CHF, standard units, and some version of English :p
- hibbelig 4mo ago
  How's that going with the numbers? Microsoft had this page where they explained that monetary amounts are formatted one way whereas other numbers are formatted another way. I found that most fascinating, but I don't know whether it matches reality. Also, how does software cope? (Back in the eighties,) I had a teacher who taught both French and geography (I think), and he used the apostrophe as the thousands separator. With a twist. For example, he would write three million as 3'000'000, and then he would abbreviate that to 3''. Very fascinating. I wonder if that was somehow inspired by Swiss conventions.
  - dgellow 4mo ago
    1'234'567.890 :) One billion, two-hundred thirty-four million, five-hundred sixty-seven (the rest are the decimals) I've never seen 3'' but that's a nice shorthand I now live in Germany where the format is confusing to me: 1.234.567,890. It's pretty much the opposite of English format!
  - toolslive 4mo ago
    3e+6 ?
tialaramex 4mo ago
That's not a bad hack, thanks

mrkstu 4mo ago

not ‘whilst’? ;)

mghackerlady 4mo ago

The Portuguese speakers really ought to sort out how their language is supposed to work, it was fine before the internet but now I can only see the differences causing trouble