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Bug 321282 - NumPad period writes a period regardless of locale setting
NumPad period writes a period regardless of locale setting
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 80139
Product: Gnumeric
Classification: Applications
Component: General
1.4.x
Other All
: Normal normal
: ---
Assigned To: Jody Goldberg
Jody Goldberg
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2005-11-12 02:04 UTC by jose lucero
Modified: 2005-11-13 18:57 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: ---


Attachments
proposed patch. (2.59 KB, patch)
2005-11-12 13:48 UTC, Jean Bréfort
none Details | Review

Description jose lucero 2005-11-12 02:04:00 UTC
Distribution/Version: gentoo

When entering numbers with numpad in a local setup with "," as decimal separator
the numpad keeps writing a period. This makes the numpad pretty much useless
when using gnumeric.
The correct way would be for the numpad period to be interpreted as a comma when
that is the locale's decimal separator.

Excel works perfectly on this aspect, openoffice has also fixed this issue,
kspread has it half solved (works on stand alone numbers but not in formulas)
Comment 1 Jean Bréfort 2005-11-12 07:05:29 UTC
I'd also like this feature, but I do not feel it is critical.
Comment 2 jose lucero 2005-11-12 12:52:58 UTC
I think a spreadsheet where i cant use the numpad keys is useless for any 
serious use, Unless one uses it to enter text only or text and integer, which 
would be a very uncommon use for a spreadsheet. 
this is the main reason i am not using gnumeric. 
 
 
Comment 3 Jean Bréfort 2005-11-12 13:48:56 UTC
Created attachment 54667 [details] [review]
proposed patch.
Comment 4 Andreas J. Guelzow 2005-11-12 14:40:20 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 80139 ***
Comment 5 Morten Welinder 2005-11-13 18:57:11 UTC
Unrelatedly, "critical" does not mean "this problem happens to me".
"People are losing data left and right" is more like it.