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Comment by Edouard on "Can I force JavaScript to use commas instead of dots, as delimiters for decimals?" | Hashnode

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Edouard

Web Developer

Mar 13, 2017

Hi Emil Moe. I think you can by overiding the Number prototype but I think it's not a good idea.

If you really want to use comas instead of dot notation you can write a service which replaces your comas by dots. You can use the .replace() function or .match() with the appropriate regex to achieve that.

Hope it helped.

Have a good one :)

Emil Moe

Senior Data Engineer

Mar 13, 2017

Problem is that I want to keep calculating on the number and for any danish non-programmer it's confusing as we use dot for thousand seperator :(

Edouard

Web Developer

Mar 13, 2017

I understand. The easy way is to write a service (a function) that replace your comas by a dot to keep calculation possible :)

Emil Moe

Senior Data Engineer

Mar 13, 2017

And then the next problem is that it's a part of a Pivot Tool so there might be calculations on the number shown :P For non english people these localizations have always been an issue with JavaScript.

Edouard

Web Developer

Mar 13, 2017

Yeah I'm not english though I get your problem ;). Hope someone will a better solution than mine then :).