[news.eclipse.birt] Re: Chaning thousand separator

[Ralf Grewe <rgrewe@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Jason!

Thanks for this one. Nevertheless the customer who asked for using the
apostrophe as thousand separator works in Switzerland. Consequently he
wants to use this special thousand separator in general. It might be very
useful to set the separator globally in the report. I would also be very
nice if the report engine looks for the system's locale and then choose the
specific thousand separator. I think I will create a future request for
this.

I've studied the JavaDoc for the DecimalFormat class. I cannot see that you
can set the thousand separator via a pattern. Consquently you will have to
use the scripting functionality of BIRT. Am I right?


Ralf