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How would you prefer for large numbers to be formatted in a terminal?
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Benefit of _ is that it's more i18n friendly. Some countries use commas for decimals. It's also more visually distinguishable in a terminal since commas looks odd at fixed-width. I'm leaning more obviously towards _ but curious if there's any alternatives or counter examples.
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I should have lead the poll with this tweet. I feel like some people would change their responses. The poll probably isn't very constructive since a majority of my followers would be English speakers who use commas.
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Also curious about the accessibility of terminals. For people that are blind, how is 123_456_789 and 123,456,789 handled? Some have suggested space separators but that feels far worse since they were be treated as separate words. Anybody know?
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@marcysutton@ryanflorence Do either of you know of any guides on terminal accessibility?Show this thread
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Why not format it following user locale in terminal?
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Detecting locale in a terminal isn't reliable. Variance in console output also isn't ideal.
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how about just spaces? I prefer that to both if the surrounding spacing is wide enough to make it clear
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For the JS ecosystem it should be fairly natural, especially because _ is now allow in numbers as separators. So you'd have to get used it it anyway.https://github.com/tc39/proposal-numeric-separator …
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Why not single-quote? As a French person, comma separator would confuse me.
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I wasn't even aware that single quotes were used to separate numbers.
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