Re: TTDPatch 2.0.1 alpha 43

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From: Josef Drexler
Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2005 16:47

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Afoklala wrote:
> - Numbers greater than 999 use a separator: ','. However, in several
> languages ',' is not used as thousands separator, but '.'. OTOH, the
> decimal sign, which is '.' in English, is in fact ',' in many other
> languages. So the number of sprites 11,383 will be interpreted as 11 plus
> 383/1000, which makes no sense. Is it possible to make both separator signs
> localizable?

This is using TTD's built-in formatting, which depends on the language
of TTD itself.  The German version, for example, writes numbers like
11.383.  I think the TTD Translator program has an option to change this
too.

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