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[Bob Jolliffe <bobjolliffe@xxxxxxxxx>]

I *think* we discuss the space separator business purely related to
display.  So when exporting to excel, or any other case where the
number is expected to be consumed as a number (including storage in
the database), exported via api in json/xml datavalueset etc there
should be no spaces, commas etc.  Confusion on this would be a recipe
for disaster.

Everyone seems to agree that how numbers display should be
configurable.  Though I thought the question was more what would be
the default appearance in the absence of any configuration.  In which
case there are only two approaches:  (i) pick something, in which case
space seems to be the most standard default, or (ii) infer something
based on the locale.

On 4 May 2016 at 09:56, Lars Helge Øverland <lars@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> many thanks for all the feedback. Will make this configurable per system
> then given the all the various opinions.
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> Another point of clarification: It seems that space is a preferred separator
> in the Web based pivot table. However, when downloading to Excel, it seems
> space is useless as it makes Excel interpret the cell as text, not numbers.
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> So as a short term solution (which could be back-ported) could be that when
> downloading to Excel, the system could fall back to no separator when space
> is selected as separator. This because space never seems useful for Excel
> spreadsheets.
>
> Would that work?
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> regards,
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> Lars
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