Re: International number formats
Re: International number formats
- Subject: Re: International number formats
- From: Brennan <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2005 14:45:54 +0100
On 25/2/05 at 09:17, Bernardo Hoehl <email@hidden> wrote:
> Hi Brennan,
>
>
> I face the same questions here.
>
> We, in Brazil use commas for decimals and periods for thousants too.
>
> And most of my maths apps tend to result in error at the first time run
> and require my attention.
>
> I looked up system preferences dictionary, and there isn't much info
> there.
>
> I was wondering if there is a lower level system access I could use to
> change the number formats in system preference's international pane.
>
> One work around would be dettecting the settings > alerting the user >
> changing the formats to what I need.
>
> But how?
Well I suppose something like this
try
"0.0" as number
on error msg number n
if n is -1700 then
.. non 'English' settings, do something
end if
end try
Is there an accepted/preferred/reliable method for tweaking system
preferences with AppleScript? I assume it requires messing with plists,
because the "system preferences" dictionary doesn't have a full object
model.
The ideal solution would be for Applescript to offer something like
using decimal seperator "."
-- blah blah blah
end using decimal seperator
I suppose it's worth posting an enhancement request for this.
Brennan
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