CultureInfo and Decimal point.

[Hector]

Hi,

My application supports different languages, and i have a problem with the
decimals:
In this application, i receive datas like "10.528".
When i use CurrentCulture = "en-US", no problem.
But with "fr-FR" for example, there's a bug.

Of course, one way to solve this problem is to test if the current language
is "fr-FR" and then make a Replace(",",".").

But i guess there's should be a better way, no ?

Thanks.

 

[Rad [Visual C# MVP]]

fr-FR

Hey Hector.

Here's a small example of one way to solve the problem:

//
// Assume the application is running under
// the French language
//
Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentCulture =
new System.Globalization.CultureInfo("fr-FR");
//
// Get a string value with the number
//
string val = "10.90";
//
// Parse the string as a decimal using the
// english (US) culture
//
Decimal data = Decimal.Parse(val,
new System.Globalization.CultureInfo("en-US"));
//
// Write the value to screen
// Should be 10,90
//
Console.WriteLine(data);

 

[Kevin Yu [MSFT]]

Hi Hector,

I agree with David that you can specify the en-US culture info as format
provider. However, in my opinion, if the machine's locale setting has been
set to fr-FR, it will be better for us to observe the machine setting,
since the user to this machine might be used to take comma as decimal point.

If there is anything unclear, please feel free to let me know.

Kevin Yu
Microsoft Online Community Support

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[Kevin Yu [MSFT]]

Hi Hector,

I'd like to know if this issue has been resolved yet. Is there anything
that I can help. I'm still monitoring on it. If you have any questions,
please feel free to post them in the community.

Kevin Yu
Microsoft Online Community Support
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