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Hello all,

Regarding of Decimal separators, I have some questions.

You may assume that a lot of country (eg. europe, and latina america) uses the decimal separator as comma(,). But at the pixel, if I set the EditText with "numberDecimal" InputType, it cannot support comma as decimal separator even Android's system language were español, français, or other languages based Latin.

Also, I think that lots of developer and customers reported Decimal comma issues... I hope that Android would be supported to use decimal comma :)

• Steps to reproduce the problem (including sample code if appropriate).

1. Set system language as español or français.
2. set the EditText with : android:inputType="numberDecimal"

• What happened. cannot type comma (,) as decimal separator

• What you think the correct behavior should be. should be supply (and able to type) comma (,) as decimal separator.

see also : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimal_separator#Countries_using_decimal_comma

ps.

At the "setInputType" method in Textview class, it is possible to use decimal separator as comma if editor has 'ImeHintLocale' (and it is able to set via "setImeHintLocales"). but It is very cumbersome to supply HintLocales for all of apps, services, and other things. I think it is more effecive to modify Textview class to use System locales for DigitsKeyListener.

codes :

@UnsupportedAppUsage
private void setInputType(int type, boolean direct) {
...
} else if (cls == EditorInfo.TYPE_CLASS_NUMBER) {
        final Locale locale = getCustomLocaleForKeyListenerOrNull(); 
        input = DigitsKeyListener.getInstance(
                locale, // If locale was null(that means there was no HintLocales on Editor), DigitsKeyListener will be set default (as English).
                        // So, I think locale would be set as system locales if HintLocales wasn't set.
                (type & EditorInfo.TYPE_NUMBER_FLAG_SIGNED) != 0,
                (type & EditorInfo.TYPE_NUMBER_FLAG_DECIMAL) != 0);
        if (locale != null) {
 ...

Thanks.

Best Regards.