#35095: Monetary values in Switzerland discrepancy
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Reporter: Andrea Angelini | Owner: Neil
Type: | Pendyala
Cleanup/optimization | Status: assigned
Component: | Version: 5.0
Internationalization |
Severity: Normal | Resolution:
Keywords: | Triage Stage: Accepted
Has patch: 0 | Needs documentation: 0
Needs tests: 0 | Patch needs improvement: 0
Easy pickings: 1 | UI/UX: 0
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Comment (by romibi):
Swiss guy here.
Keep in mind that just because the goverment specifies some formatting for
governmental publications doesn't mean the rest of the country uses it.
Commonly used in IT and default swiss locale settings on current operating
systems is '.' as decimal separator for ALL values (see
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dezimaltrennzeichen#Schweiz )
{{{
Im IT-Bereich ist in heute gängigen Betriebssystemen (Windows, macOS,
Linux usw.) in der schweizspezifischen Spracheinstellung der Punkt als
Dezimaltrennzeichen definiert, auf dem Ziffernblock schweizerischer
Tastaturen wird ebenfalls der Punkt verwendet.
}}}
So my vote is: change DECIMAL_SEPARATOR to '.' and ignore the government
link and refer to wikipedia in the documentation.
The removal of USE_L10N and this "wrong" locale gave me quite some
headaches when we upgraded from 2.2 to 5.0 just now.
Glad I finally found out how to override this in a custom format file
(https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/5.0/topics/i18n/formatting/#creating-
custom-format-files)
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