Display of credits

[UK_Eliter]

Dear all (or all Oolite programmers)

How about commas in the display of one's credits? It would make the amount much more readable.

Also - though I am not really complaining - trumble pods don't actually produce trumbles in my version of the game (that version being '1.74-test', plus various, and I think up-to-date, OXPs).

Cheers.

[Thargoid]

Trumbles is a 1.74 glitch (see here).

Consider it a temporary gift from a benevolent diety...

[Cmdr James]

Formatting of thousands, the commas in numbers, are an internationalisation nightmare. We might get away with a slight space, but commas are not a good plan as our european friends will not like it.

[UK_Eliter]

Dear Cmdr James

Ah. Can we just use spaces, then? As in, for example:

1 206 432

?

Or perhaps we will have to use localisation? (I have some vague awareness that there are different standards. Although at least one would presumably not have to bother with the distinction - in eclipse, anyway - between the British and the American *billion*.) At present, at any rate, the numbers are just to hard to read, I think - and this matters when trading ships.

PS: I'd considered the following workaround. Give the number, without punctuation, and then give the number in letters. But that results in text that is much too long.

[Cmdr James]

It would be far easier to add spaces than to express the number in words.

[JensAyton]

If anyone feels like implementing the spaces thing, remember to test it with speech synthesis.