Last modified: 2011-03-13 18:06:51 UTC
Hello all, as requested at Bug 18957, please change the behavior of the formatnum:-function back for the german wikipedia. Sincerly, DaB.
I support the request of DaB. Although there is a ISO norm stating a point should not be used, this norm is almost never applied to electronic media because the corresponding German DIN norms state that a small space should be used. This character can't be displayed correctly by almost non web browser or other software on the market resulting in the usage of the point as delimiter for thousands. Even Microsoft uses the point as delimiter for German regional settings in their latest OS Windows Vista. So German Wikipedia advised to use the point as delimiter due to the technical difficulties. Regarding this, the change made in 18957 renders the second largest Wikipedia with about 920,000 articles to an unconsequent mixture of number formatting. Evenmore, 18957 didn't even use the by DIN proposed delimiter and introduces another "wrong" attempt to fulfill the norm. So I strongly suggest reverting 19857 or at least implement a mechanism allowing each Wikipedia / site using MediaWiki to apply a custom number formatting via system message or configuration option.
The discussion at http://de.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Fragen_zur_Wikipedia&oldid=61365468#Vorlagen.C3.A4nderung.3F further suggests that the change has some unwished effects in sorting tables. (I can reproduce the described error with Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; cs; rv:1.9.0.11) Gecko/2009060215 Firefox/3.0.11. Sorting was fine before the change was made, the template [http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vorlage:Dts Vorlage:dts] which needs the formatnum:-function wasn't changed. Have a nice day, Matthias
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 18957 ***
the reverse (raw) option is not fixed
