Use unit display of Operating System (commas and dots)

[Roi Danton]

In Germany (and other countries) people are used to another number separation, e.g. comma "," for decimals and dot "." for separating of the 10^3 parts in a number.

E.g.
0,76ls instead of 0.76ls
65.500km instead of 65,500km

It would be nice if ED detects and uses the settings made in Windows/(whatever OS you will support in future).

Furthermore in the International System of Units it is recommended to use a space instead of a comma or dot as thousands separator.

 

[huwthomas]

In Germany (and other countries) people are used to another number separation, e.g. comma "," for decimals and dot "." for separating of the 10^3 parts in a number.

E.g.
0,76ls instead of 0.76ls
65.500km instead of 65,500km

It would be nice if ED detects and uses the settings made in Windows/(whatever OS you will support in future).

Furthermore in the International System of Units it is recommended to use a space instead of a comma or dot as thousands separator.

Seems like a good idea to me, maybe ticket it? (since there is language localisation, it's not unreasonable IMO to view this as a minor bug).

 

[Cmdr Eagleboy]

Yeah, ticket it as localization issue. They still can overlook it, but at least you will get their opinion on issue.

 

[RCKJD]

I agree, it should be part of localization.

 

[Roi Danton]

Thanks for your feedback, I sent a ticket to ED support.

 

[Bobbydylan]

In Germany (and other countries) people are used to another number separation, e.g. comma "," for decimals and dot "." for separating of the 10^3 parts in a number.

E.g.
0,76ls instead of 0.76ls
65.500km instead of 65,500km
.

Really? Wow, thanks confusing.

 

[Roi Danton]

Really? Wow, thanks confusing.

Fortunately Frontier is using SI units what makes things a lot easier (and fortunately I am a programmer so I'm used to dots as decimal separator as well ;-) ).

 

[Seonid]

Really? Wow, thanks confusing.

It's one of those funky European things, probably some revenge for ergs, dynes and rods per hogshead.

 

[Space_Killer69]

Numerical Notation

A space should be left between groups of 3 digits on either the right or left hand side of the decimal place (15 739.012 53). In four digit numbers the space may be omitted. Commas should not be used.

From the National Physics Laboratory.

http://www.npl.co.uk/reference/measurement-units/si-conventions/

Must be a British thing.

 

[Yaffle]

The Indian numbering system is even more confusing to those of us used to the three digit lumps.

From Wikipedia (may or may not be correct (TM)):

he terms lakh (100,000) and crore (10,000,000) are used in Indian English to express large numbers. For example, in India 150,000 rupees becomes 1.5 lakh rupees, written as INR1,50,000 or INR 1,50,000; 30,000,000 (thirty million) rupees becomes 3 crore rupees, written as INR3,00,00,000 with commas at the thousand, lakh, and crore levels; and 1,000,000,000 (one billion) rupees (one hundred crore rupees) is written INR1,00,00,00,000.

Confused me when I was there, teaching accounting.

 

[Cody]

A fascinating country, is India - I have fond memories of my time there.

 

[Roi Danton]

Support has marked the ticket as resolved so maybe changing the number separators/using the settings of the OS will be supported in future.

 

[Mephane]

In Germany (and other countries) people are used to another number separation, e.g. comma "," for decimals and dot "." for separating of the 10^3 parts in a number.

E.g.
0,76ls instead of 0.76ls
65.500km instead of 65,500km

It would be nice if ED detects and uses the settings made in Windows/(whatever OS you will support in future).

Furthermore in the International System of Units it is recommended to use a space instead of a comma or dot as thousands separator.

Support has marked the ticket as resolved so maybe changing the number separators/using the settings of the OS will be supported in future.

Please, no*. I play on a German Windows, but the game in English. I have no desire to either have non-English number formatting within the game, nor having to change my Windows formatting scheme just to enable language consistency within a single game.

What FD could do, and would make sense, is automatically adapt the formatting to the chosen UI language.


*I always find it infuriating when a game looks at my OS and assumes and changes stuff within the game UI automatically because of my OS settings. The most extreme cases are games that automatically play only in the OS language with no way to manually choose - they do exist, and it is especially ugly when they have English voice acting only but force a German UI - I am looking at you, Saints Row 2!

 

[Roi Danton]

What FD could do, and would make sense, is automatically adapt the formatting to the chosen UI language.

Yep, sounds valid.

 

[JensSchmidt]

Switch to decimal comma?

Is there a way to switch to decimal comma (1.864.334,000) from the default decimal point (1,864,334.000)?

For me it's very confusing and I suspect that I'm completely alone...or maybe I am


Keep up the fantastic work

 

[Seonid]

It's also confusing as you appear to have reversed them in your example.

 

[chaseydog]

It's also confusing as you appear to have reversed them in your example.

Now you've confused me. I believe the OP wants to change from using the decimal point as the decimal seperator to using a coma as the decimal seperator.

 

[Cody]

<nods - a trifle uncertainly>

 

[ErikNM]

You're in our world now, Yankee. Deal with it!

EDIT: Oh this is terrible, I have it backwards! Nooo!

 

[Seonid]

Now you've confused me. I believe the OP wants to change from using the decimal point as the decimal seperator to using a coma as the decimal seperator.

Edit: Ah, got it, didn't realise they mixed and matched both comma and decimal point. Must be one of those odd Euro things.