Re: Number editing in Chile

[smorrison@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]

You can select default editing formats by user profile. There are options 
to select decimal format, date editing, language  for system menus and 
messages in the user profile. 

Things to consider from a programming standpoint are field 
descriptions/headings on screens  and reports, and messages sent by your 
programs. Your programs may also need to be changed to handle the new date 
formats. Most non-US countries enter dates in DDMMYY format, instead of 
the MMDDYY format we are used to. Your date and number editing routines 
will probably need to look  at the job description or user profile 
attributes to do editing.

Field headings on reports and screens may need to be revised, because the 
abbreviated descriptions that work in English, don't work in Spanish, and 
there may be shorter descriptions for some fields in Spanish that don't 
work in English.


Steven Morrison
Fidelity Express 




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Number editing in Chile






I need to add a Chile environment on our AS/400.

The problem we have is that the numbers in Chile need to be formatted
differently then in the US.

In Chile they switch the '.' and ',' in numbers so that the '.' is the
thousand separator and '.' marks the beginning of the decimal portion of
numbers.

For example 1,234.56 in US would be 1.234,56 in Chile.

 

Does anyone know of an easy way to handle these changes?

 

Thanks,

Bob Kohlndorfer