Re: [Gretl-devel] Signalling
I'm not going to spend long on this, but I think Andreas is right
on
the factual point, and I don't really know what Talha means by a
"decision to unsupport localized input". We support the local
decimal character in the GUI to the extent possible
Not true, although I was
surprised to see that inputting numbers with
comma indeed works in some GUI options in which it didn't a few months
ago. (or maybe I am mistaken because it sometimes works and sometimes
don't, which is very annoying.) Anyway, I still see problems in the
following cases.
1)- Define matrix (initial fill value)
2)- Model window->Save->Define new variable
3)- Main window descriptive labels (decimal dot is used for displayed numbers)
4)- Gnuplot controls->Lines (formula lines show dots)
5)- Gnuplot controls-> Labels, Arrows
These _need_ to be fixed. Only this way gretl can say it supports
different languages, and mean it.
... without breaking
the hard-and-fast decision that we are not going to support anything
other than the decimal point in scripting. The latter point is just
a given and there's no profit in discussing it.
It is a relief to see Riccardo
and I are not the only obsessed people
here. Seriously though, is it really that hard, in comparison to all
the effort and what is already in there, to provide this feature? I
mean, all that is needed is a clever interpretation layer that will
switch commas with dots. It is probably a bit more complicated than
that but still it cannot be like designing a system like Unicode
involving rules and properties to support dozens of different writing
systems.
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