Re: [PATCH] Fix strange behavior when summing rows/columns containing strings

From: "Rafal Kulaga" <rl.kulaga@gmail.com>
Sent: Monday, April 25, 2011 10:09 PM
To: "Martin Sevior" <msevior@gmail.com>; "abiword-dev" <abiword-dev@abisource.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix strange behavior when summing rows/columns containing strings

> The solution you proposed seems reasonable to me - I will implement it
> and send new patch, but I think the ultimate solution to this issue
> would be to give the user ability to indicate the location of currency
> symbol. Such solution would require more coding work, but can be
> implemented without loss of compatibility.

Please note that you must also recognize numbers which are written with locale-specific thousands separator (including whitespace), and also parentheses around the number marking it as negative.
Received on Tue Apr 26 00:15:38 2011