[plug] Calculator that uses commas , for thousands seperation

Ryan ryan at is.as.geeky.as
Sun Jul 10 22:17:48 WST 2005


On Sun, 2005-07-10 at 22:09 +0800, Chris Caston wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I love it how the calculator on my palm gives me : 1,000,000 instead of
> 1000000 like xcalc and kcalc.
> 
> I'm wondering if there is a calculator for Linux that gives me this as
> well.
> 
> Calcoo does it but  with ' signs instead and the interface looks ugly.
> 
> Is there another calculator that does it or can I configure xcalc, kcalc
> or qalculate or do so?

gcalctool (which I've never used before but is under Accessories in
Gnome) has a 'Show thousands separator' option (Ctrl-k).  As of 4.4.20
which is what I have, it doesn't work :) ...
 
... because according to the manual:

"The separator character is not displayed when you use the C locale."

Ryan
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