OpenRefine
Localization of number formatting
At the moment we display our numbers without formatting them according to the locale.
Proposed solution
It would be great if the locale could be taken into account when formatting numbers in most places in the UI.
For instance, instead of showing 4126530 rows, show 4,126,530 rows in English and 4 126 530 lignes in French.
Alternatives considered
None.
Additional context
It seems to me that we first need support for this feature in the underlying localization library: https://github.com/wikimedia/jquery.i18n/issues/229
Isn't this related to one of your bullet points specifically in the older issue #2443 ?
Also, I think it would be wise that we probably clarify the proposed solution with system locale and not just saying locale.
I would expect as a user that if I change my system locale, that OpenRefine's UI understands and respects that change after a refresh on browser? Do-able?
Since we only have frontend localization at the moment, this issue is about the frontend (but the same could be applied to the backend if we localize it eventually).
Additional context
It seems to me that we first need support for this feature in the underlying localization library: https://github.com/wikimedia/jquery.i18n/issues/229
Does this mean we have to migrate to https://github.com/wikimedia/banana-i18n ?
If they support that in banana-i18n, then I would definitely support that :)
Since we only have frontend localization at the moment, this issue is about the frontend (but the same could be applied to the backend if we localize it eventually).
More precisely the backend / server uses the default locale of the process where the server is running. Typically this will be the default system locale. It may also be desirable to allow control of the locale used for number formatting in the toString() function, but that's not currently possible.
