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* \unit and french
@ 2012-10-09 19:04 Romain Diss
  2012-10-09 20:01 ` Wolfgang Schuster
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 11+ messages in thread
From: Romain Diss @ 2012-10-09 19:04 UTC (permalink / raw)
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Hi all,

As you know, the french number format is almost opposite to the english one: 
period and comma have opposite roles.

My question concerns the way to render properly numbers in french with the 
\unit command. I already tried different combinations of 
\setupunit[method=,order=] but I can’t find the right way. I tried even to 
type french or english format as input for \unit but none output is right 
(actually I'd prefer to type french format as \unit input).
Also, when there are "three digits" separators on both sides of the decimal 
point, some method outputs are not consistent.

I attached a not so minimal exemple.

Thanks for any idea to solve this.


-- 
Romain Diss
<romain.diss@yahoo.fr>

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\starttext

\startbuffer
\starttabulate[|l|l|l|]
\HL
\NC  \NC \tex{unit} input: french format \NC \NR
\HL
\NC method 0 \NC \setupunits[method=0]\unit{12.345,567 kilogram} --- \unit{12.345,567.89 kilogram} --- \unit{345,567.89 kilogram} \NC \NR
\NC method 1 \NC \setupunits[method=1]\unit{12.345,567 kilogram} --- \unit{12.345,567.89 kilogram} --- \unit{345,567.89 kilogram} \NC \NR
\NC method 2 \NC \setupunits[method=2]\unit{12.345,567 kilogram} --- \unit{12.345,567.89 kilogram} --- \unit{345,567.89 kilogram} \NC \NR
\NC method 3 \NC \setupunits[method=3]\unit{12.345,567 kilogram} --- \unit{12.345,567.89 kilogram} --- \unit{345,567.89 kilogram} \NC \NR
\NC method 4 \NC \setupunits[method=4]\unit{12.345,567 kilogram} --- \unit{12.345,567.89 kilogram} --- \unit{345,567.89 kilogram} \NC \NR
\NC method 5 \NC \setupunits[method=5]\unit{12.345,567 kilogram} --- \unit{12.345,567.89 kilogram} --- \unit{345,567.89 kilogram} \NC \NR
\NC method 6 \NC \setupunits[method=6]\unit{12.345,567 kilogram} --- \unit{12.345,567.89 kilogram} --- \unit{345,567.89 kilogram} \NC \NR
\HL
\stoptabulate

\starttabulate[|l|l|l|]
\HL
\NC  \NC \tex{unit} input: english format \NC \NR
\HL
\NC method 0 \NC \setupunits[method=0]\unit{12,345.567 kilogram} --- \unit{12,345.567,89 kilogram} --- \unit{345.567,89 kilogram} \NC \NR
\NC method 1 \NC \setupunits[method=1]\unit{12,345.567 kilogram} --- \unit{12,345.567,89 kilogram} --- \unit{345.567,89 kilogram} \NC \NR
\NC method 2 \NC \setupunits[method=2]\unit{12,345.567 kilogram} --- \unit{12,345.567,89 kilogram} --- \unit{345.567,89 kilogram} \NC \NR
\NC method 3 \NC \setupunits[method=3]\unit{12,345.567 kilogram} --- \unit{12,345.567,89 kilogram} --- \unit{345.567,89 kilogram} \NC \NR
\NC method 4 \NC \setupunits[method=4]\unit{12,345.567 kilogram} --- \unit{12,345.567,89 kilogram} --- \unit{345.567,89 kilogram} \NC \NR
\NC method 5 \NC \setupunits[method=5]\unit{12,345.567 kilogram} --- \unit{12,345.567,89 kilogram} --- \unit{345.567,89 kilogram} \NC \NR
\NC method 6 \NC \setupunits[method=6]\unit{12,345.567 kilogram} --- \unit{12,345.567,89 kilogram} --- \unit{345.567,89 kilogram} \NC \NR
\HL
\stoptabulate
\stopbuffer

\language[en]
What is expected in french:

\language[fr]
\m{12\,345,567}~kg --- \m{12\,345,567\,89}~kg --- \m{345,567\,89}~kg

\language[en]
What would be expected in english:

\language[fr]
\m{12,345.567}~kg --- \m{12,345.567,89}~kg --- \m{345.567,89}~kg

\stoptabulate

\startsection[title=French language]

  \language[fr]

  \startsubsection[title=Normal order]
  
  \setupunit[order=normal]
  \getbuffer

  \stopsubsection

  \startsubsection[title=Reverse order]
  
  \setupunit[order=reverse]
  \getbuffer

  \stopsubsection

\stopsection

\startsection[title=English language]

  \language[en]

  \startsubsection[title=Normal order]
  
  \setupunit[order=normal]
  \getbuffer

  \stopsubsection

  \startsubsection[title=Reverse order]
  
  \setupunit[order=reverse]
  \getbuffer

  \stopsubsection

\stopsection


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2012-10-09 19:04 \unit and french Romain Diss
2012-10-09 20:01 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2012-10-09 20:06   ` Wolfgang Schuster
2012-10-09 20:11   ` Marco Patzer
2012-10-09 20:29     ` Wolfgang Schuster
2012-10-09 20:40       ` Marco Patzer
2012-10-09 21:08       ` Romain Diss
2012-10-10 15:41         ` Sietse Brouwer
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2012-10-10 19:51             ` Wolfgang Schuster
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