# Change System Language makes changes the decimal seperator

**URL:** <https://forum.universal-robots.com/t/change-system-language-makes-changes-the-decimal-seperator/1720>\
**Category:** URCaps SDK\
**Created:** [March 7, 2018, 3:09pm UTC](https://forum.universal-robots.com/t/change-system-language-makes-changes-the-decimal-seperator/1720 "2018-03-07T15:09:59Z")\
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**Post date:** [March 7, 2018, 3:09pm UTC](https://forum.universal-robots.com/t/change-system-language-makes-changes-the-decimal-seperator/1720/1 "2018-03-07T15:09:59Z")

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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?

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**Post date:** [March 8, 2018, 7:30am UTC](https://forum.universal-robots.com/t/change-system-language-makes-changes-the-decimal-seperator/1720/2 "2018-03-08T07:30:32Z")

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

> [@Good practice: Reading floats from number input field](http://forum.universal-robots.com/t/good-practice-reading-floats-from-number-input-field/971):
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> When reading a floating point number from an InputTextField, it should be noted, that there can be different decimal notations, based on the users selection of language. English language would use dot-notation (e.g. 1.5) where e.g. French would use comma-notation (e.g. 1,5) - this is also the raw text that would be read from the input field using the getText() method. As URScript will need dot-notation for decimal separation, it is good practice to ensure that the number parsed will have this …