I18N of JS floats

[jm99]

Hi Guys

Is it the case that parseFloat will ALWAYS successfully parse a float that is formatted with the user's local decimal indicator. E.g. A German browser will correctly parse one dollar seventeen cents formatted as 1,17?

Thanks in advance

 

[jaredn]

I'm not sure, but I just tested a ',' on my machine (IE5.5), and it did not work. jared@eae.net -

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[jm99]

Thanks jared

Could you just tell me what your locale is, (what regional settings are in place)

Cheers

 

[jaredn]

I'm in South Florida, but I'm not sure that JS is locale-sensitive in this case. Please let me know if it is... jared@eae.net -

http://webfx.eae.net

 

[jm99]

Hi jared

The particular problem that I'm trying to address wouldn't affect you as I guess that you've got the machine set to a US locale. The issue that I have is that not all locales use a '.' and I'm trying to establish if the js engine in the browser is smart enough to swap the separator based on the locale. I guess that I'll just have to swap the settings on my machine but I didn't really want to have to validate the behaviour for every country that the app needs to work in, oh well ;->

J