I've noticed when displaying numeric parameters above 1000 in Visios there appears to be a space inserted every 3 digits (Where you would expect to see a 'thousands' seperator). This is fine with very large numbers (Although it would be nice to have a localized separator, such as a "," for the US), but it makes parsing reading/understanding certain values, such as port numbers, difficult. Is there an option to disable this in Visio? I wasn't able to find one, but I may have been looking in the wrong place.
Examples:
Hi Nick,
The small space between groups of three digits is indeed intended to make large numbers easier to read. However, this should not impact the parsing of values, as it is normally only used in the display, not in the actual value. Can you share more details on how you are retrieving the value to parse?
Hi Nick,
I understand it is not pleasant to receive these complaints from users. At this moment, this setting is not configurable. If you want, you can create a feature suggestion here: https://community.dataminer.services/feature-suggestions/
To give you some background on why we implemented the separators this way, a couple of years ago, we used automatic regional formatting, and we received several remarks from users in international organizations that the formatting was different depending on the region some users were in, and this sometimes led to confusion. To address these concerns, we decided to implement the ISO 31-0 notation, as this is part of an international standard, to create a unified display of the units (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_31-0#Typographic_conventions)
And to confirm, is there an option or data type from the Protocol that can be used to fix this? There are specific parameters, notably port numbers, that are particularly confusing when displayed like this.
Hi Nick, as far as I know, there is currently no option to change this behavior from the protocol.
Apologies, “parse” is a poor word choice here. I don’t mean for a computer to parse, I mean for a person looking at the number to be able to easily understand what they are looking at. (I receive constant complaints about the spaces from users, several times per month).