Number/Currenct formatting by locale

[Peter Haworth]

Hi Keith,
Actually, it's me who is trying to implement this not Bob.  You raise some good points though.  My first question is why on earth would you be running Salesforce when you're on holiday in the Maldives :-)

My thoughts are that are that the first time you run my application, it will gather the OS preferences and store them as it's private preferences which the user can change if needed.  So in your example, assuming you first run the app on a computer that has it's preferences set to wherever you live, my app would store those preferences locally.  Then when you're in the Maldives, it will still use it's private preferences rather than the ones on the computer you are on, unless, of course, you needed to change them because you decided to move to the Maldives permanently :-)

In my related post, I'm looking for a script to format currency according to the info in the OS preferences since I'd probably store that data within my app in that form.

Pete Haworth

On Mar 1, 2011, at 12:59 AM, Keith Clarke wrote:

> Bob, 
> Just a couple of thoughts - I don't know what you're trying to achieve with your app, but are you sure you even want to have such settings to follow the user's machine/OS settings automatically? 
> 
> From my experience with multi-locale/currency/language software products - ERP, CRM, etc - localisation settings tend to be associated with entities (including, of course, the user entity!) rather than bubble-up from the  environment in which the app is being accessed. For example, if I log into Salesforce.com from an internet cafe, whilst on holiday in the Maldives (some hope!), I still want my reports to follow my personal user-based preference for locale, rather than the machine I happen to be using or its IP address.     
> 
> Also, multi-currency apps tend to have a limited number of supported currencies so that exchange rates can be managed.
> 
> Ignore all this if it's outside the scope of your current considerations.
> Best,
> Keith..  
> 
> On 1 Mar 2011, at 01:35, Bob Sneidar wrote:
> 
>> Oh nvm I just read the whole thing didn't try LC
>> 
>> Bob
>> 
>> On Feb 28, 2011, at 5:12 PM, Peter Haworth wrote:
>> 
>>> The decimal point is there but the thousands sep and grouping info is wrong.  Similar corruption occurs for the LC_MONETARY info.
>>> 
>>> Is Shell broken?
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Pete Haworth
>> 
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