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[Simon Wells <swel024@xxxxxxxxx>]

the problem is what happens if/when it needs to convert back into a
string, it needs to know whether to show a comma or period

On Thu, Sep 15, 2016 at 8:25 PM, Oliver Walters
<oliver.henry.walters@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I'm not 100% that I understand the issue, but here is my proposed fix:
>
> Allow "native" separators in KiCad (comma or period) and when the Python
> script converts these string values to numbers it will automatically turn a
> comma into a period.
>
> On Thu, Sep 15, 2016 at 4:58 PM, jp charras <jp.charras@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> This is a language setting.
>> It could be no so easy to test, if the system language uses the same
>> separator as the "C" language
>>
>> The easy fix is do not use the wxWidgets floating point validator (no
>> validator).
>> The user must enter fp numbers using the "C" locale separator (the point).
>> The best fix is more complicated, and imply :
>> - Use the selected language (usually the system language, but not always)
>> fp separator to display fp
>> number in dialog (this is not currently the case: currently this is the
>> "C" locale separator, used
>> by the Python script)
>> - In countries which use an other separator (a comma), allow both the
>> current locale separator *and*
>> the "C" locale separator.
>>
>> This issue is well known in Kicad.
>
>
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