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Bug 17635 - This needs to have a locale attribute so that teh "valid floating point number" can be parsed properly for the locale. (eg. "en-US" would have 12345.67 and "de-DE" would have 12345,67)
Summary: This needs to have a locale attribute so that teh "valid floating point numbe...
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: WHATWG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: HTML (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Other other
: P3 normal
Target Milestone: Unsorted
Assignee: Ian 'Hixie' Hickson
QA Contact: contributor
URL: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/...
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Reported: 2012-06-28 18:12 UTC by contributor
Modified: 2012-07-20 03:27 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Description contributor 2012-06-28 18:12:36 UTC 
Specification: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/states-of-the-type-attribute.html
Multipage: http://www.whatwg.org/C#number-state-(type=number)
Complete: http://www.whatwg.org/c#number-state-(type=number)

Comment:
This needs to have a locale attribute so that teh "valid floating point
number" can be parsed properly for the locale. (eg. "en-US" would have
12345.67 and "de-DE" would have 12345,67)

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Comment 1 contributor 2012-07-18 17:52:36 UTC 
This bug was cloned to create bug 18261 as part of operation convergence.
Comment 2 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2012-07-20 03:27:42 UTC 
The idea is that the on-the-wire format is not locale-specific but always in an unambiguous globally machine-readable format defined basically by ISO. The UI can be locale-specific, but that's up to the UA.

(There's a separate bug about allowing the page to request specific locales' UIs, but that's different.)