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.NET Forum / .NET Framework / Internationalization / August 2005Override number formatting
Hi I've created my webapp on my local computer, and it all works fine. The numbers are formatted as appropriate for my country (eg. 10 000 for ten thousand). But when I upload to my server in the US, the format changes to the American system (10,000 for ten thousand). I've heard that you can get around this by adding the "culture" tag to Web.config. However, Microsoft's default settings for my country are wrong. If I add culture="en-NZ" to the Web.config, my local computer now uses the wrong settings too. How can I override the settings so that the numbers appear correctly? Thanks Chris Where is the standard of using a space as the group separator for en-NZ defined? I have not been able to find such a standard anywhere. The Common Locale Data Repository uniformly displays a comma as the group separator for that locale: http://www.unicode.org/cldr/data/diff/main/en_NZ.html Beth > Hi > [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] > Thanks > Chris "New Zealand has adopted the SI or metric units of measurement" (from http://www.med.govt.nz/buslt/compliance/standards/guide-2001/guide-2001-04.h tml) There is plenty of SI information available via Google, such as "The digits of numerical values having more than four digits on either side of the decimal marker are separated into groups of three using a thin, fixed space counting from both the left and right of the decimal marker. Commas are not used to separate digits into groups of three." (from http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/checklist.html, #16) Anyway, this doesn't answer my question! Chris On 6/8/05 3:07 AM, in article OasWv9cmFHA.1464@TK2MSFTNGP14.phx.gbl, "Beth N" <eflarup@yahoo.com> wrote: > Where is the standard of using a space as the group separator for en-NZ > defined? I have not been able to find such [quoted text clipped - 21 lines] >> Thanks >> Chris > There is plenty of SI information available via Google, such as "The digits > of numerical values having more than four digits on either side of the > decimal marker are separated into groups of three using a thin, fixed space > counting from both the left and right of the decimal marker. Commas are not > used to separate digits into groups of three." (from > http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/checklist.html, #16) SI has nothing to do with the number formatting. All Europe uses SI for a long time, but the France uses non-breaking-space (or non-breaking-half-of-space if you are to be more catholic than the pope), Germany uses dots and so on. And your quote is from NIST, which is an U.S. thing. So, the question is again: what should it be for NZ ?  SignatureMihai Nita [Microsoft MVP, Windows - SDK] ------------------------------------------ Replace _year_ with _ to get the real email I came on here and asked how to override the number formatting. Could someone please answer my question, rather than argue about what's right and what's wrong. Thank you. Context, please? It is impossible to determine from the below what you are trying to do, exactly. But if it turns out that what you want to do is not a best practice and it will not be good for the user of whatever you are developing, you should be thanking the people who point it out.... SignatureMichKa [Microsoft] NLS Collation/Locale/Keyboard Technical Lead Globalization Infrastructure, Fonts, and Tools Blog: http://blogs.msdn.com/michkap This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights. >I came on here and asked how to override the number formatting. Could > someone please answer my question, rather than argue about what's right > and > what's wrong. > > Thank you. Sorry about the delay in replying. > Context, please? > > It is impossible to determine from the below what you are trying to do, > exactly. Sorry, I have a bad habit of not including all the information :) Simple line of VB code: TextBox1.Text = String.Format("{0:c0}", 12345) This results in the TextBox filling with "$12,345" when I want it to say "$12 345". > But if it turns out that what you want to do is not a best practice and it > will not be good for the user of whatever you are developing, you should be > thanking the people who point it out.... Look at any NZ Government publication (or many other NZ publications) and you'll find a space as the separator. Thanks Chris You can update the numeric grouping separator in a CultureInfo's NumberFormatInfo and then use that ci or nfi to do the formatting -- that is the best way to proceed hee, given the code you are using (note the String.Format override that uses an IFormatProvider -- you can pass the NFI right there). SignatureMichKa [Microsoft] NLS Collation/Locale/Keyboard Technical Lead Globalization Infrastructure, Fonts, and Tools Blog: http://blogs.msdn.com/michkap This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights. > Sorry about the delay in replying. > [quoted text clipped - 22 lines] > Thanks > Chris Aha! After all that trouble, I knew it'd be quite simple to do. Thanks! Chris On 19/8/05 2:46 AM, in article umZMoOApFHA.3544@TK2MSFTNGP15.phx.gbl, > You can update the numeric grouping separator in a CultureInfo's > NumberFormatInfo and then use that ci or nfi to do the formatting -- that is > the best way to proceed hee, given the code you are using (note the > String.Format override that uses an IFormatProvider -- you can pass the NFI > right there). > I came on here and asked how to override the number formatting. Could > someone please answer my question, rather than argue about what's right and > what's wrong. In general I don't like teaching people how to shoot themselves (in the leg or otherwise :-) SignatureMihai Nita [Microsoft MVP, Windows - SDK] ------------------------------------------ Replace _year_ with _ to get the real email
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