Issue 15601

Summary: Wrong numeric-keypad decimal separator in Calc!
Product: Calc Reporter: ggabriel <gablistas>
Component: codeAssignee: oc
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE QA Contact: issues@sc <issues>
Severity: Trivial    
Priority: P1 (highest) CC: issues
Version: OOo 1.1 Beta2   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: PC   
OS: Windows XP   
Issue Type: DEFECT Latest Confirmation in: ---
Developer Difficulty: ---

Description ggabriel 2003-06-13 18:52:48 UTC 
There are many countries that use the "," symbol as decimal separator, but
keyboards with Spanish layout (what we use in Latin America and Spain) come only
with a "." (dot) printed in the keyboards' numerical keypads instead.
Having set the decimal separator to "," in the Windows Control Panel, if you
press the numeric keypad "." key to type a decimal number, Excel correctly
enters the current decimal separator chosen by the user (a "," in this case) in
Windows Control Panel.
But in OOo Calc when you do the same thing it enters the "." dot, regardless of
the decimal separator chosen in Windows. This is bad! Everytime you want to
enter a decimal you end up with a non numeric string in the cell. Currently the
only way is to press the "," in the main keyboard section. This is very
unproductive and ultimately annoying!

I don't know if this also happens under KDE or Gnome, but it would be a good
idea to check it, if OOo is to succeed in countries using the "," as decimal
separator, this should be fixed ASAP.

Thanks!!!!!!!!!!
Gabriel Gazzán
Comment 1 frank 2003-06-16 10:26:58 UTC 
Hi,

as you've found out by yourself, this is a double to Issue 1820. So I
set the flags.

Frank

*** This issue has been marked as a duplicate of 1820 ***
Comment 2 frank 2003-06-16 10:27:16 UTC 
closed double