PowerToys Run "," or "." on the calculator

[diogo-r]

Description of the new feature / enhancement

Just a simple suggestion.
Commas can be used with large numbers to assist the reader. They are placed every three decimal places to the left of the decimal point, which is marked with a period (full stop). For example: 123,456.789
Many other countries use the reverse formatting, i.e., they use periods (full stops) to mark out every three decimal places and a comma for the decimal point. For example: 123.456,789
(This would be correct in many non-English-speaking countries, such as Germany, Portugal and France.)

So my suggestion is to add an option to change the comma function on the Calculator, on the PowerToys Run's Plug-ins settings.

Source

Scenario when this would be used?

This is very important to everyone who uses the PowerToys Run's Calculator in a non-English-speaking country.

Supporting information

No response

[dedavis6797]

Related: #12121

[diogo-r]

Any idea when this will be added?

[crutkas]

We use the default to the OS choice here. What is your system set to?

[Matszwe02]

I have the same issue. My system is default "," and to be honest I don't know how to change it to "."
EDIT: ok, I figured it out

[Matszwe02]

one of solutions is to change default decimal character in windows settings, but it will also affect windows calculator (powertoys reads these system settings as its default)
it can be changed in Settings -> Region -> advanced -> decimal separation character

[diogo-r]

We use the default to the OS choice here. What is your system set to?

I am using the default in many non-English-speaking countries, such as Germany, Portugal and France, which is "," as the decimal separation character.

[beppegg]

I really feel the pain of this issue too.
Using the Italian country settings (comma as decimal delimiter), whenever I type a calculation with the numeric pad, I always end up with wrong results if I don't pay extra attention to this problem. In fact, pressing the "." key on the numeric pad doesn't produce a comma like in, for instance Excel, but a dot that gets ignored by the calculator module.
Having the calculator to adopt the same intelligence of Excel would be lovely, but a simple configuration option "decimal separator: system setting/comma/dot" could also suffice.
I'd love to contribute the change by myself but I don't know the technological stack that well

[htcfreek]

@jaimecbernardo
Do we classify this as a duplicate of 17300 (add settings for input type)?

[jaimecbernardo]

@htcfreek , I guess that would make sense. They're at least related.

[htcfreek]

/dup #17300

[microsoft-github-policy-service]

Hi! We've identified this issue as a duplicate of another one that already exists on this Issue Tracker. This specific instance is being closed in favor of tracking the concern over on the referenced thread. Thanks for your report!