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[Jeff Young <jeff@xxxxxxxxx>]

I think we can close it for now.

The patch only addresses one side of the issue (accepting a ‘.’ in a ‘,’ locale), but the opposite (typing a ‘,’ in a ‘.’-locale) is probably extremely rare.

Cheers,
Jeff.


> On 25 Feb 2018, at 20:53, Nick Østergaard <oe.nick@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> I guess this is addressed with Michaels patch in that bug, or are there still any open questions?
> 
> Den 23. feb. 2018 6.24 PM skrev "Jeff Young" <jeff@xxxxxxxxx <mailto:jeff@xxxxxxxxx>>:
> We had a discussion a while back about local-specific decimal characters in which JP made the point that we don’t have any use for thousands separators, and so we might as well accept either separator (. or ,).
> 
> I *thought* at the time that it was mentioned that Kicad already did this, but I can’t find any evidence of it (certainly not in libEval).
> 
> Am I looking in the wrong place?
> 
> If not, do we want to make this change?  (It would be a very simple change in libEval.)
> 
> Cheers,
> Jeff.
> 
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/kicad/+bug/1751315 <https://bugs.launchpad.net/kicad/+bug/1751315>
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