Mate calc decimal separator

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Hi!

I use Ubuntu Mate 24.04, I don’t know why Mate Calc is using the coma as decimal separator instead of period.

I tried different regional language settings, but it has no effect.

How can I obtain that calc uses the period?

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I remember, when I was setting up the language settings for my region, for whatever reason, the date, time, and number settings did not change from English (United States) to English of my region. I had to do it manually, via the same Language settings utility.

Have you checked this?

Jaymo

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Yes jaymo, i tried various regional settings for my language, but it has no effect on Mate Calc.

4

The file controlling global usage is this:

/etc/default/locale

My copy of that contains the following:

#  File generated by update-locale
LANG=en_CA.UTF-8
LANGUAGE="en_CA.UTF-8:en_GB.UTF-8:en_US.UTF-8:en"

To determine what the system has been "told" to use, you can verify using the following:

locale -k LC_NUMERIC | grep decimal_point

which for me reports as

decimal_point="."

The following could give you some background and info to tweak your system's global LOCALE parameters:

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Thank you so much Eric.

Problem solved.

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