#5319 HIGH Update.: Calculator in a language with ", " for decimal point cannot parse expression.

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#5319: Calculator in a language with "," for decimal point cannot parse
expression.
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  Reporter:  ohshima              |       Owner:  rwh     
      Type:  defect               |      Status:  new     
  Priority:  high                 |   Milestone:  Update.1
 Component:  calculator-activity  |     Version:          
Resolution:                       |    Keywords:          
  Verified:  0                    |  
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Comment(by AlbertCahalan):

 Replying to [comment:2 rwh]:

 > Yoshiki: I didn't think of this problem. Perhaps it is better to remove
 support for ',' separators again, as it will get harder to parse functions
 with multiple arguments then. For example, pow(2,3,0) would be
 impossible... What do you think?

 You could translate that too. Anybody using "," as a decimal point will
 need something else as a list separator. I believe that ";" is the norm in
 this case, giving pow(2;3,0). I don't really suggest this though, because
 pow(a,b) is not mathematical notation anyway. It's modern programmer
 notation, which is always done with "." as the decimal point.

 Correct math notation is possible. Some real calculators support it.

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