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

[Jason Weathersby <jasonweathersby@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Ralf,

I should have checked this first.  If you set the locale to Switzerland, 
the separator is changed automatically.  What you want is already in the 
engine.  To test set the locale on the url or while in the designer 
change it here:

window->preferences->Report Design->Preview->Choose your locale

This allows you to change the locale for testing purposes.

Jason

Ralf Grewe wrote:
> 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