From: Gdobbins <gdobbins@protonmail.com>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: RFC: locale-sensitive Emacs functions
Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2017 00:10:50 -0400 [thread overview]
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In Common Lisp, such directives use : rather than ', but more importantly they also take arguments to specify the grouping and the separation character. They default to 3 and comma respectively. If Emacs' format were to allow similar arguments to be provided, it would allow the exact format to be specified where it is important and the user could set global variables like default-digit-grouping and default-digit-separator or some such to get behavior matching their locale. For example:
(format "%:d" 100000) => "100,000"
(let ((default-digit-grouping 4)
(default-digit-separator ?.))
(format "%:d" 100000)) => "10.0000"
-- Graham Dobbins
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-03-28 4:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-03-28 3:06 RFC: locale-sensitive Emacs functions Ted Zlatanov
2017-03-28 4:10 ` Gdobbins [this message]
2017-03-28 4:37 ` Paul Eggert
2017-03-28 11:59 ` Gdobbins
2017-03-28 12:45 ` Ted Zlatanov
2017-03-30 18:27 ` Ted Zlatanov
2017-03-31 4:27 ` Gdobbins
2017-03-31 17:59 ` Davis Herring
2017-03-28 19:37 ` Paul Eggert
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