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[Feature] Add support for regionally differences #849
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Originally created by @vinstaal0 on GitHub (Jan 2, 2024).
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Pitch: what problem are you trying to solve?
Currently when you type in information it follows US standards, which you can only partly change for dates and for dots and comma's. Which means that if you are used to typing in figures and dates it will not work correctly. For me it can't find the dates (loads of countries use - as separator while the US uses the /) and it will not correctly note numbers like 1.234,56 typed in.separator
Describe your ideal solution to this problem
The best solution would be to be able to check the settings on the input device/server. Another option is to make it so you can manually adjust it. (both would be even better)
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It would be a setting that will not do anything for Americans, but will be a godsend to the rest of the world
@github-actions[bot] commented on GitHub (Jan 2, 2024):
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@Jackenmen commented on GitHub (Jan 2, 2024):
Formatting options are available in Actual's Settings (available under More -> Settings):
These apply both to displayed text and input.
If a date or number format used in some country is missing, it can be added but your issue requests adding a new feature when the feature already exists.
@vinstaal0 commented on GitHub (Jan 2, 2024):
DD-MM-YYYY is missing and it doesn't work for the numbers you type in, I keep adding millions instead of thousands.
The feature exists, but is far from complete and I am also suggestion the automatic adaption.
@Jackenmen commented on GitHub (Jan 2, 2024):
Great, you can make a separate request for this and some contributor will likely resolve this part of your problem much quicker since it should be relatively easy to add another format. I'd suggest including the name of the country where this is considered standard too.
It does work - it requires that you use the selected decimal separator instead of the default dot, i.e. I have "," selected as decimal separator and so I have to use "1000,00" to get a thousand instead of "1000.00" which gets transformed into "100 000,00" since "." is not the separator I have set. If you're experiencing a different behavior, perhaps there's a bug with this that haven't been reported yet, I can't reproduce it.
If I understand correctly what you're asking for, this is already tracked in #894.
@vinstaal0 commented on GitHub (Jan 2, 2024):
I'll add another issue for the DD-MM-YYYY.
I just tested it again and it doesn't seem to work all the time for some reason. Next time I find out in what field it is ill create a bug report for it. Works in schedules though.
Issue #894 does suggest something that can help fix the issue, especially cause triple decimals aren't supported so maybe it can check that.
My suggestion is to just check what the user is using for locale and use that for display and input.