[Qgis-user] qgis 3.2 attribute table thousand separator

[Alessandro Pasotti]

On Fri, Jun 29, 2018 at 3:24 PM, Andreas Neumann <a.neumann at carto.net>
wrote:

> I have to agree with Tobias here. It is the most annoying new "feature" in
> QGIS 3x - this localizing of numeric values (decimal point and thousand
> separator). It causes many troubles.
>
> Plus: keep in mind that there are countries where several systems are in
> place. It shouldn't be forced on the user by the operating system setting.
> In Switzerland, some cantons use the "point" as decimal separator, while in
> other cantons, they use the "comma".
>

Hi Andreas,

Maybe worth a longer explanation:

0. the O.S. settings are in fact user settings: the user can choose whether
to use a comma, a dot etc. by configuration in the O.S. in user space
1. this changes were necessary to fix bugs introduced by widgets changes in
QGIS that prevented (among other things) to enter doubles for systems where
decimal point was not a dot, this is not a feature but a bug fix
2. the old situation was messy: some widgets in the UI were honoring the
O.S. settings some were not

The current situation tries to remove the inconsistencies (or at least the
majority of them) and leaves to the user the possibility to configure the
system.


> I would very much appreciate if there could be separate settings how to
> treat decimal point and thousand separator. The current behavior bothers me
> a lot.
>

There is already,  it's not in QGIS application but in the O.S. settings.

Btw, adding an option to override O.S. settings at the QGIS level is on the
way:

See: https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/pull/7337

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Alessandro Pasotti
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