Change System Language makes changes the decimal seperator

[dhv]

Hi when I change the language to ex Danish, decimal separator turns to a comma,
this makes my program throw errors since i didn’t handle it.
also when looking at the ui for an input field number it show . but writes , which is counter intuitive.
Do I really need to handle this for every single input number field?

[jbm]

Yup, localization gives you a comma for e.g. French notation, and a dot for the English decimal separator.

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