I frequently use KRunner to do simple sums when doing my accounting. I keep a ledger with numbers formatted as e.g. 1,000.00. My system settings in KDE for number formatting under Region & Language is set to British English, i.e. the way I want it. However, whenever I copy a sum from KRunner, e.g. “1000.25 + 1000.25”, it is copied as “2000,25”. It gets a bit annoying to change this manually.

I can’t seen to find any specific settings for this in KRunner or the Calculator plugin, and I would expect it to respect KDE’s own settings.

Does anyone know how to force KRunner to do my bidding here?

  • cyberwolfie@lemmy.mlOP
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    15 hours ago

    Therefore, the only thing it is changing based on regional settings is the use of the comma or period to denote a decimal.

    Also I don’t see how from this post the decimal point is wrong. Sure it is simplified to one decimal place, but again many calculators do this.

    It uses a comma instead of a punctuation mark as the decimal point. Default numbers formatting on my system uses a punctuation mark. In other words, it is ignoring my system settings for what numbers should look like.

    I could be wrong considering I had a bit of trouble understanding the post. I just bring this up because in American English there are no delimiters for thousands place or above either.

    In that case I would expect it to output the numbers without the delimiter. But I have not set the number formatting to American English.