office-formula message

Subject: Re: [office-formula] VALUE - what to do with "." and ","?

From: "Tomas Mecir" <mecirt@gmail.com>
To: office-formula@lists.oasis-open.org
Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2007 22:14:13 +0100

2007/3/22, David A. Wheeler <dwheeler@dwheeler.com>:
> In short: Do we require "C" locale interpretation of Numbers for VALUE? Is it locale-dependent?  Does it try "C" locale first, and then a locale if that fails?
>
> What do current implementations, including Excel, OOo, Gnumeric, KSpread, etc., do?

If I recall correctly, KSpread first tries locale-specific conversion,
and if that tries, it tries "C" locale, and if that fails too, the
whole conversion fails.

/ Tomas

References:
- VALUE - what to do with "." and ","?
  - From: "David A. Wheeler" <dwheeler@dwheeler.com>