I would definitely be interested in collaborating on this. What can I do?
By the way, what happens if you have users with different user language? Would that be a
problem? Should language be hidden in user preferences if the #expr is changed to take
language into account?
On 31 januari 2013, at 19:39, "Mark A. Hershberger" <mah(a)everybody.org>
wrote:
On 01/31/2013 10:48 AM, Ad Strack van Schijndel
wrote:
- #expr only accepts . as decimal separator and
doesn't like thousands separators. So before you can do any calculation you have to
transform the amounts that have been entered on forms in Dutch format.
It looks
like there is a function, Language::parseFormattedNumber, that
ParserFunctions could use to translate the input from the wiki's content
language.
I asked the original author of the function (Niklas Laxström) about this
and he said the function wasn't designed for user-input, is expecting
something particular, and may produce unexpected output.
I think this is at least worth a bug report so I made one:
http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/44559
- #formatnum also only accepts English format as
input, so if you want the plain 2500,5 that has been entered by the user to appear on the
page as € 2.500,50 you have to transform twice. First transform to English format and then
use #formatnum.
The Formatnum extension looks like it is designed to translate
English
format numbers to other formats, but you seem to make a good case that
it, too, could use Language::parseFormattedNumber.
- Calculations can be rather complex with
combinations of entered amounts, queried amounts and results of other calculations.
It sounds like you have some great test cases for any code changes that
may be made. Would you be interested in collaborating on this?
Mark.
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