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PowerToys Run > Calculator accept both . and , for decimals separator #10964

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stdedos opened this issue Apr 27, 2021 · 3 comments
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PowerToys Run > Calculator accept both . and , for decimals separator #10964

stdedos opened this issue Apr 27, 2021 · 3 comments
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stdedos commented Apr 27, 2021 •
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Provide a description of the new feature / enhancement

Powertoys Run > Calculator accept both . and , for decimals separator

40.23-65.23 is clearly -25 and not -2500
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crutkas commented Apr 27, 2021

Making that assumption isn't possible since different regions and cultures represent decimals and commas differently. Example in the US a comma is for groupings and in German, it is the decimal.

The number 6,002 has drastically different meanings then on where your culture

We do have a issue to flip us to the calculator engine which should use OS defaults.. #2265

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@crutkas crutkas added Resolution-Duplicate There's another issue on the tracker that's pretty much the same thing. Run-Plugin Things that relate with PowerToys Run's plugin interface Resolution-Helped User Could help the user by a problem they had and removed Needs-Triage For issues raised to be triaged and prioritized by internal Microsoft teams labels Apr 27, 2021
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stdedos commented Apr 27, 2021 •
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I am assuming that most people just use the decimal, rather than the thousands separator when typing manually.

For those people, ,. are interchangeable.

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stdedos commented May 8, 2021

We do have a issue to flip us to the calculator engine which should use OS defaults.. #2265

Also, that does not apply to me either: I am using two different layouts, with a different OS language, and all of those locales have different standards with regards to what the separators mean.

. is what my Numlock . produced right now; it could've been , (ofc not when I am typing US English)

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