Comma as decimal separator

[leonardorojass]

The system should allow to use comma (,) as the decimal separator in results (or calculations, reports, ect.) for SI system users.

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[lemoene]

relevant (via jean on the dev group)

http://docs.python.org/2.6/library/locale.html#locale.format
http://developer.plone.org/i18n/index.html?highlight=locale

[lemoene]

Was this one resolved Leo?

[leonardorojass]

I was thinking about it yesterday. I am not sure where shall I change from point to comma as decimal mark in the configuration setup? Does it is in Bika setup or in zope setup? The system always has point mark as default.

[xispa]

For tracking purposes, copy&paste from users list:

Right now, Bika LIMS only has support for the english version of decimal mark, the dot, which is the Python's standard decimal mark.

The Bika LIMS input fields in forms are mostly managed by Plone's Archetypes framework, so we don't usually need to use any specific code logic for saving content-type field values, taking advantage of Archetypes. Until now, Archetypes didn't have support for different decimal marks, but the latest version of Products.Archetypes, which was delivered last week (1.9.8 - 2014-06-03) allows commas as decimal marks for input in float fields. Even though, this improvement only converts the 'comma' character from float fields to dot character when the content-type gets saved, so we'd still need to convert the float value again to the user's current locale in all places where the float value is displayed.

[lemoene]

I cannot find the mail where Campbell suggested that a Plone patch fixed the issue, can you trace it leo an paste in here please, leo i'm on a manic schedule at the moment

the issue with issues raised in private, i think we should be stricter in channelling all general subjects through the lists (discussions) and tracker (issues)

At the same time leo mentioned that usinf SI in their ISO 17025 documents, and the issue might see the lab fail their audit. which made we wonder how she passed audits for 10 years in ZA, and some in Canada that I know of in the decimal point configuration

Note to self find out

[rockfruit]

Took this out of 3.1 - there is actually quite a bit of code that needs testing for this feature.