Regional settings: period as decimal separator


  1. Faust
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    Windows 7 64 bit
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    Regional settings: period as decimal separator


    Hello all,

    I have written commercial software that accumulates data from a pilot installation and saves this (in a nutshell). It works all well, HOWEVER when someone has a windows version with different regional settings it saves data with a comma as decimal separator instead of a period. E.g. 3,14 instead of 3.14

    This becomes a problem when interpreting data, as I save data in a .csv file with, yes, a comma as delimiter.

    So what I want: Include in the installer a registry key or something else that will automatically change this on windows 7/vista if the user has different settings.

    How can I achieve this.
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  3. Faust
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    Windows 7 64 bit
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    OK I already solved it, the values are under: this user\control panel\international in the registry.

    Do users always have permission to change these settings?
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  4. not so gray matter
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    In order to registry edit you need admin priviledges if UAC is enabled.
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