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Re: Build break - commaizenumber



On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 11:03:17AM -0500, Eric Haszlakiewicz wrote:
> Using whatever is set even if it's not a "," is the whole point of looking it
> up based on the locale, but if a locale doesn't configure anything for a
> thousands separator, why wouldn't we want to use a default?

The locale is the authority, better not try to outsmart it. Untill a few
minutes ago the de_DE locale eroneously didn't set the thousands separator,
so you would have ended up using the decimal separator as a thousands
separator with your reasoning - thus causing extreme confusion.

Martin


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