What's with the apostrophe?
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For example, the wallet writes 12'424 instead of 12,424.
Any reason for this? To my eyes, it looks like an attempt at being quirky or different where one isn't needed. ie. users probably want familiarity when it comes to numbers in a digital wallet.
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@FlippyCakes Your right it shouldn't be there, an apostrophe is used in English to represent substituted letters like "you're" instead of "you are" numbers are separated by commas because of readability but an apostrophe doesn't make it incorrect ether just different .
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@FlippyCakes It's how the Europeans do numeric separators: so instead of 10,000 it's 10'000
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@haitch That's neat I didn't know that Europeans had a different way of using separators.
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@haitch Huh, very interesting. Never knew this, either. Perhaps this should be dependent on the language setting, which defaults to English. Or maybe its own setting.
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@FlippyCakes The wallet is written in Java - don't know if there is a consistent way to get the regional settings across all the potential platforms the wallet could run on.
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@haitch It would be something like this depending on your code.
Locale locale = Locale.getDefault();
String lang = locale.getDisplayLanguage();
String country = locale.getDisplayCountry();
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@AngryChicken Not my code :) But I'll pass the suggestion on to the developers.
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@haitch Yeah, sniffing locale from the environment may not be possible. I meant, there is a language drop down, so perhaps when the user changes that, the delimiter character changes. language <-> delimiter might not be one to one though - in that case another setting drop down box could be used.
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@FlippyCakes I passed on the suggestion about locale. From what @AngryChicken posted, it should be simple enough.
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@FlippyCakes @haitch It can be changed if it is changed in the language used... If you go to the settings of the wallet you can change the language the wallet is in but i don't think the wallet has responsive way to location and imho it should not have since it is supposed to be annonymous but this setting (language) can be changed easily manually from who wants, is just set up in the wallet translation that rule, don't seem too hard to accomplish but i can be wrong xD
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@haitch said in What's with the apostrophe?:
@FlippyCakes It's how the Europeans do numeric separators: so instead of 10,000 it's 10'000
I'm European, but we don't use the apostrophe as a separator, we just use a space, as in 1 000 000 (Norway).
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@Propagandalf i have seen it used somewhere but dont remember where :) In lithuania we also use space :D
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In Portugal there is no correct way to do it LOL
We use space, comma or apostrophe hhahaha
But mostly space or apostrophe, comma confuses sometimes...
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@Propagandalf @LithStud @gpedro - Yeah, I should have been clearer, it is the norm in some European countries.
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Hi Guys,
I'm working in EU and travelling in 5 differents country for my company.
What can I say about this :- Avoid the comma use, in EU the comma is really often used to separate numbers and decimal numbers.
- The standard practice is to use space like that : 1 000 000 or 1 254
Ben
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the apostrophe has caused me problems in the past when programming systems. ive also had on numerous occasions the periods replaced with commas in values i was submitting to web related api's that ended up not working or submitting data due to an unexpected char in a value. some places have the comma as the decimal separator and some the thousand.
apostrophes are even worse in SQL applications as it specifies the beginning and end of string data
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Dont worry about apostrophe :) it shows up only in UI, numbers are stored in database as numbers :)
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Yeah, of course I know the database uses plain numbers.
Anyway, my reason for bringing this up is that recently I've been thinking a lot about Burst and how it appears to new users. In the case of the wallet, for example, English users probably shouldn't see the apostrophes as separators.
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@FlippyCakes completely agree with this. lol living in the uk when i first saw it it confused me at first and i am tech savy. what would be idea is if the locale changed depending on the visitors location. and a setting so someone can change it.
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I'm pretty sure Burstcoin wanted it to be future proof and universal. In most contries in Europa they use either a point "." or a blank space " ". In that case, number would look like:
1 000 000
1.000.000In USA or other countries, they use the comma instead ",". That means it will look like:
1,000,000In USA 1.000.000 means 1
In (many) european countries, 1,000,000 means 1
by using " ' " instead, Burstcoin eliminated confusion, He completely eliminated any commonly used symbols in math and instead used a grammatical symbol.
Why he didn't use a white space instead, I don't know. He might have wanted to have a symbol, to make it easier to read.or Burstcoin simply comes from Switzerland or Italy.




