#749 Unlocalized decimal point in units
Closed: Won't fix / Can't fix 6 years ago Opened 6 years ago by piotrdrag.

Currently, units always use English (C locale) decimal points, i.e. periods. Other locales have different decimal points, so for example when viewing the Polish version, Fedora websites should show “1,5 GB” instead of “1.5 GB”.


This is going to be a wontfix, at least until we don't start parsing image sizes (they are in a variable file now). But even then it will be rather difficult to show the format used in a specific locale, because we just don't know them.
However, most of the languages where 1,5 is mostly used, also sometimes use 1.5.

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6 years ago

This is going to be a wontfix, at least until we don't start parsing image sizes (they are in a variable file now). But even then it will be rather difficult to show the format used in a specific locale, because we just don't know them.

CLDR, ICU, and glibc all contain that information.

I do hope this issue could be reconsidered in the future.

However, most of the languages where 1,5 is mostly used, also sometimes use 1.5.

I feel that the fact that some people sometimes use wrong decimal points in their language is irrelevant here.

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