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How would you prefer for large numbers to be formatted in a terminal?
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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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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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I'm from NL and floating point numbers in programming languages have made me *permanently* confused about whether to use a dot or comma
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I don't know with certainty what other "light green" countries use, but in France we call it a "thousands separator" ans it's a simple space. Like this : 1 234 567,89
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In Germany, a period is used as the thousands separator (we call it that as well), like this: 1.234.567,89 I.e., the characters are swapped, which makes English punctuation especially weird for us.
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why does canada use both omg
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Quebec
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Is it possible to use the LANG env variable to attempt to guess the answer to this? Might not work in all consoles, but then just default back to _ ~ ❯ echo
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Why is my country (Croatia) blueish? We’re definitely 100% comma.
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To be fair, on the poll the number showed more than one comma, so it was clear (at least for me, a non-English speaker) which function it was serving.
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