Bug 159037 - A new item in cells in Calc
Summary: A new item in cells in Calc
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE of bug 46448
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Calc (show other bugs)
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7.6.4.1 release
Hardware: All All
: medium enhancement
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Reported: 2024-01-05 15:00 UTC by Louis DeWald
Modified: 2024-01-10 13:38 UTC (History)
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Description Louis DeWald 2024-01-05 15:00:16 UTC
Description:
For example, one million in English it is 1,000,000.00, but in Dutch it is 1.000.000,00. Some people use a space instead of the dot or the comma, so:
1 000 000,00 or 1 000 000.00.
Is it possible to enter this new item in the cell formatting. Maybe we start a new international quotation.

Actual Results:
There is no problem

Expected Results:
I have to do it myself. ;-)


Reproducible: Always


User Profile Reset: No

Additional Info:
I hope we start an international breakthrough.
Comment 1 Eike Rathke 2024-01-05 15:35:46 UTC
Where even is your problem? The default formatting depends on the current locale, either as set under Tools -> Options -> Language Settings -> Languages, or if Default there then inherited from the system locale. Individual cells can be attributed with a specific locale from the number format dialog (Ctrl+1 or Format -> Cells..., Numbers, Language).
Comment 2 Louis DeWald 2024-01-05 16:19:50 UTC
Dear Eike,


Thank you for the quick response. I have no problem, but an idea. The space instead of the comma or the dot doesn't exist. So, maybe a space in every language is a possibility.

Just to set a new international quotation. ;)


Yours faithfully,

Louis  DeWald
Comment 3 Eike Rathke 2024-01-05 17:23:56 UTC
Ah so you want a space instead of what the locale says to use as group separator.. as such I'm closing this as a duplicate of bug 46448 in case that gets ever implemented.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 46448 ***
Comment 4 ady 2024-01-05 23:14:49 UTC
(In reply to Louis  DeWald from comment #0)

> Is it possible to enter this new item in the cell formatting.

I know this is closed already, but IMHO it should not be a dupe of tdf#46448, as the request of using a space as digit group delimiter is already possible in LO 7.6.

For example, if I have the following number format code:
#,##0.00

I can replace that comma to a space character:
# ##0.00
Comment 5 Louis DeWald 2024-01-06 16:55:19 UTC
Dear Ady,

Thank you for your solution. I did it and it worked! Thank you again.

Yours faithfully,
Louis  DeWald
Comment 6 Eike Rathke 2024-01-10 13:38:34 UTC
That (using any character that is not the locale's group separator) does not act as a group separator though, but as literal character at that position only. The number 1234567.89 is displayed as
1234 567.89
not
1 234 567.89

Furthermore it _always_ outputs the space character also for smaller numbers, e.g. the value 1 would produce the output string " 1.00", you usually don't see with right aligned numbers but would with left aligned or when copy-pasting through clipboard.