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Bug 18261 - 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: HTML WG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: HTML5 spec (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Other other
: P3 normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Edward O'Connor
QA Contact: HTML WG Bugzilla archive list
URL: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/...
Whiteboard: Clone_WontFixed
Keywords:
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
Reported: 2012-07-18 17:52 UTC by contributor
Modified: 2012-10-12 23:34 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

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Description contributor 2012-07-18 17:52:33 UTC 
This was was cloned from bug 17635 as part of operation convergence.
Originally filed: 2012-06-28 18:12:00 +0000

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 #0   contributor@whatwg.org                          2012-06-28 18:12:36 +0000 
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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 Edward O'Connor 2012-10-12 23:34:50 UTC 
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Status: Rejected
Change Description: No spec change.
Rationale: As Ian said in bug 17635 comment 2,

> 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.)