[plug] Calculator that uses commas , for thousands seperation

[Chris Caston]

On Sun, 2005-07-10 at 22:17, Ryan wrote:
> 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."

I got the same thing but didn't know it was because of that. Any idea
how to fix this?
> 
> Ryan
> 
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