Oolite Bulletins

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.

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.

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.

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

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