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[ramaso hasina <hasina.ramaso@xxxxxxxxx>]

Supporting Jim's suggestion. For Madagascar, the default separator is
'space'.

Best regards,

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*Hasinarivelo RAMASOMANANA*
*mHealth Specialist*
Population Services International
Antananarivo - Madagascar

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2016-05-04 8:44 GMT+03:00 Hannan Khan <hannank@xxxxxxxxx>:

> Supporting Jim and Ola on implementation wide settings to configure a
> default system-wide separator with provision to override for each pivot
> table. For Bangladesh the default separator is 'Comma'.
>
> Regards
>
> Hannan
> HISP Bangladesh
>
> On Wed, May 4, 2016 at 1:32 AM, Ola Hodne Titlestad <olati@xxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>
>> Supporting Jim's suggestion on a system/implementation setting to
>> configure a default system-wide separator in addition to the possibility of
>> overriding this for each pivot table or other type of report with display
>> options. I guess the result of the vote could still be what the default
>> value for this system setting should be....
>>
>> Ola
>> ------
>>
>> ----------------------------------
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>> HISP
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>>
>> On 3 May 2016 at 21:12, Jim Grace <jim@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>> To me the most important way to address this is to allow an
>>> implementation-wide default. The space character is in many ways the
>>> "correct" separator according to international norms, and is even making
>>> inroads into countries such as the US that traditionally use the comma. I
>>> think the space is probably the best "factory" default for DHIS 2, so that
>>> large numbers are readable on demonstration systems, and so we follow
>>> international and emerging standards.
>>>
>>> However, an implementation should be able to override this with an
>>> implementation-wide default of comma, where a preponderance of users for
>>> that implementation are more used to this, and/or where exporting to Excel
>>> is a concern.
>>>
>>> Expecting users to override the default every time they create a pivot
>>> table is not very user-friendly.
>>>
>>>
>>> On Tue, May 3, 2016 at 1:46 PM, Prosper BT <ptb3000@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I vote for having none as default (1432) then one can choose what they
>>>> want in options
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Tue, May 3, 2016 at 7:36 PM, Lars Helge Øverland <lars@xxxxxxxxx>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hi there,
>>>>>
>>>>> we are getting many (conflicting) requests for what the default value
>>>>> should be for the "digit group separator" in the pivot table app.
>>>>>
>>>>> So lets decide with a poll.. Cast your vote here before Friday 6th!
>>>>>
>>>>> http://doodle.com/poll/vtyzgts226aqihev
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> The digit group separator controls how large numbers are being split
>>>>> up, e.g.
>>>>>
>>>>> 1 432
>>>>> 1,432
>>>>> 1432
>>>>>
>>>>> The digit group separator can be controlled from Options.
>>>>>
>>>>> [image: Inline image 1]
>>>>>
>>>>> regards,
>>>>>
>>>>> Lars
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>> Lars Helge Øverland
>>>>> Lead developer, DHIS 2
>>>>> University of Oslo
>>>>> Skype: larshelgeoverland
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>>>>>
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