[wp-polyglots] number_format_i18n and floating point numbers

[Nikolay Bachiyski]

On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 10:42, Peter Westwood <peter.westwood at ftwr.co.uk> wrote:
> ...
> Looking at these three things I am unsure as to why the first one needs to
> be translatable - looking through the repo I think everyone has it currently
> set to 0 because otherwise all the numbers will display as floats not
> integers.
>
> In there a reason why this needs to be translated?
>

I haven't seen a place, where it's used.

> I would have thought that just having a default behaviour for floats or even
> relying on the value the caller provides to the function (which also
> effectively defaults to 0) to be specified when they want to show a float
> would be good enough.
>
> What are your thoughts?

We should remove the translation and set it ti 0. If, at some point,
we need to format floats, we will make a new function just for floats
and it may use a specific locale setting.

Happy translating,
Nikolay.