Localized number formats

jdale

I just had someone tell me that a generator I shared with them didn't work because I (like Americans) use a decimal point for decimals and he (like a European) uses a comma. He had to find and replace all the decimal points and change them to commas.

It might be helpful if you could add a setting at the start of a generator to indicate the numeric format in order to prevent this issue. E.g. something like

setdecimal:.

There might be other ways to address it better, that's just the first thing that comes to mind. In any case it might be worth noting in the documentation.

Ed_NBOS

Ah, I used to encounter this when the mapper used a text based file format. I'll keep this in mind for the next version of IPP.