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Windows decimal symbol. How to know. How to set it ?
One could consider me as the administrator for my customers. But I agree. I will try to pursue adapting my application to the users local settings. -
Windows decimal symbol. How to know. How to set it ?
Ah, we crossposted it seems. I guess that I could use your function to determine the decimal point, and then like in your example substitute the "wrong" for the "correct" one before proceeding with using the data in the next functions. I have something to work with now. Thanks :) -
Windows decimal symbol. How to know. How to set it ?
Could this work ?: Set Shell = CreateObject("Wscript.shell") Shell.RegWrite "HKCU\Control Panel\International\sDecimal", ".", "REG_SZ" Shell.RegWrite "HKCU\Control Panel\International\sList", ";", "REG_SZ" The above should set the decimal point symbol to ".", and the list separator symbol to... -
Windows decimal symbol. How to know. How to set it ?
Hi all. @ Remou. The SetLocale function seems to that I could force a Language that uses period for the decimal point (US ?). Dont know if there will be some unwanted sideeffects from doing so. Will investigate it. @ Hugh. dpChar sounds interesting. But is it available in VBS ? I cant find any... -
Windows decimal symbol. How to know. How to set it ?
Hi. I have succeeded in writing some scripts that reads and writes values to text files. What occasionally screws things up is when the decimal symbol is changed in the regional settings of Windows Control panel. You know, to designate the decimal point, in some languages is used the period...
