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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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Here is a map of countries and what decimal separator they use. The countries in light green (Russia), all use a comma. eg. "$1,25". How can anyone say that choosing commas is the right approach when they're used completely different in most of the world?pic.twitter.com/GVrnCUhT0s
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What if you used an environment variable like LANG or LC_CTYPE to localize the terminal output?
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Node doesn't handle many of those environment variables correctlyhttps://github.com/Microsoft/TypeScript/issues/27428 …
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It doesn't really matter what format your country uses since the devs are used to the format their programming language uses. So if your target audience is majority dev then i18n concerns are not that important. (german here; we use "." instead of ",")
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I'm not sure if you're in support of _ or , JavaScript uses _https://github.com/tc39/proposal-numeric-separator …
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I chose commas but absolutely change it based off this
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Would rather use dot (or whitespace) for the dividers, but "it depends".
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_ or a space work best. For human readability I think a white space is the least confusing and cleanest solution.
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