Re: [libreoffice-users] Verify bug in OOo and LO for Non EN-USA locale

On 2011-07-03, Leif Lodahl wrote:

> 2011/7/3 Andrew Douglas Pitonyak <andrew@pitonyak.org>
>
> > StarBasic converts a string representations of a number in a locale
> > specific way. In other words, in the USA, I expect "12.5" to round to an
> > integer as 13. In Germany, I expect "12,5" to round to 13. I have a report
> > of this NOT working on Linux in Germany. I am interested in the results from
> >  a few different languages, locales, and operating systems. Note that this
> > works for me with the latest OOo release and the latest LO release candidate
> > 3 on 64-bit Fedora on en-US.
> >
> >  Dim l As Long
> >  Dim d As Double
> >  l = CLng("12.5") : Print l  ' Expect 13 in en-US
> >  l = CLng("12,5") : Print l
> >  d = cdbl("12.5") : Print d
> >  d = cdbl("12,5") : Print d
> >
> > Based on responses, I will open a bug report
>
> Running the test with Danish (da) locale confirms. The result is 12, 12, 125
> and 12. We use ccomma (",") as decimal separator as in German locale.
>
> I'm using Linux with LibreOffice 3.4.1 (OOO340m1 (Build:101)).
>
> I hope this can help.

There is a bug in which cdbl truncates the result if the decimal
separator is not a period. It was discussed here some time ago, see

  http://mid.gmane.org/BANLkTinmR6KNBjzBchS_TwiiHM=CFxHVzw@mail.gmail.com

and the bug report in OOo bugzilla

  http://openoffice.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=70236

I don't know if there's already a report in LibO bugzilla.

-- 
Nuno J. Silva (aka njsg)
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