[Bug 16601] Change of Output for Type number an date

https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16601


Markus KrÃtzsch <markus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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             Status|NEW                         |RESOLVED
         Resolution|                            |LATER




--- Comment #2 from Markus KrÃtzsch <markus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>  2009-07-31 
14:32:25 UTC ---
I agree that it would be nice to improve our number formatting. In principle,
there is just one not-so-complex function doing it right now:

smwfNumberFormat() found in SMW_GlobalFunctions.php

If you could extend this function to support the kind of behavior that you
envision, then I can take care of updating the datatypes in a suitable way. I
think you suggest this only for plain numbers (no units), right?

Internationalization would be a problem, since there is probably no common
scheme on how/when to abbreviate large numbers. 

As a workaround for the problem that you describe, I have shifted the default
maximum size for numbers that are shown without using exp notation. At least
all population numbers should now be displayed without exp. Since I will not be
working on the other issue any time soon, I close this bug as "Later" -- as I
said, your input would be welcome.


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