GNU bug report logs - #53819
29.0.50; Follow the national way to use floating point numbers.

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Niels Søndergaard <nisoni <at> algon.dk>

Date: Sun, 6 Feb 2022 13:52:01 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Tags: wontfix

Found in version 29.0.50

Done: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Niels Søndergaard <nisoni <at> algon.dk>
Cc: 53819 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#53819: 29.0.50; Follow the national way to use floating point numbers.
Date: Sun, 06 Feb 2022 16:17:17 +0200

> From: Niels Søndergaard <nisoni <at> algon.dk>
> Date: Sun, 06 Feb 2022 14:51:31 +0100
> 
> 
> In alle European countries (except UK) we use decimal comma and dots for
> dots for tell thousands. Emacs only use the US/UK way with decimal dots
> and comma for thousands.
> The "right" way is already defined in the nationality ID, but configure
> this on my iMAC tells me, that emacs does not support languages.

If we were to use the locale-specific conventions for decimal and
thousands separators, then how could Emacs in locale A correctly read
and execute a program written in locale B?
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