# Change System Language makes changes the decimal seperator **URL:** \ **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")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 2
**Author:** ![jbm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.universal-robots.com/jbm/32/614_2.png) [@jbm](https://forum.universal-robots.com/u/jbm)\ **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")
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): > > 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 … --- _[View the full topic](https://forum.universal-robots.com/t/change-system-language-makes-changes-the-decimal-seperator/1720)._