Thousands separator in file having an localization error












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I'm a bit at a loss during a server migration where I moved my c# program from one server to another, the problem occured that the thousands separator suddenly changed without my doing. My guess is that its a localization error, but I'm not sure what to do about it.



Both servers are equal in terms of languages installed, ... .



Example:
932Â 830,00 is shown on the new server instead of 932.830,00 like on the old



Code:



public void mydo(double difference, string filepath)
{
StringBuilder fileContent = new StringBuilder();
fileContent.AppendLine(" " + String.Format("{0:n}", difference));

using (StreamWriter fileHandler = new StreamWriter(filepath))
{
StringBuilder fileContent2 = new StringBuilder();

fileContent2.AppendLine("<HTML><BODY>");
fileContent2.Append(fileContent.ToString());
fileContent2.AppendLine("</BODY></HTML>");

fileHandler.Write(fileContent2.ToString());
}
}









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    what is in System.Globalization.CultureInfo.CurrentCulture.NumberFormat.NumberGroupSeparator property?

    – vasily.sib
    Nov 19 '18 at 9:04











  • java.com/en/download/help/locale.xml

    – Mitch Wheat
    Nov 19 '18 at 9:04











  • @ Patrick Hofman: it's irrelevant in the article. It talsk about windows, not java per se.

    – Mitch Wheat
    Nov 19 '18 at 9:08













  • A little explanation with the link would be useful then.

    – Patrick Hofman
    Nov 19 '18 at 9:08








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    @ Patrick Hofman: I assumed someone would be able to click on the link and read it.......I can't spoon feed everyone.

    – Mitch Wheat
    Nov 19 '18 at 9:08


















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I'm a bit at a loss during a server migration where I moved my c# program from one server to another, the problem occured that the thousands separator suddenly changed without my doing. My guess is that its a localization error, but I'm not sure what to do about it.



Both servers are equal in terms of languages installed, ... .



Example:
932Â 830,00 is shown on the new server instead of 932.830,00 like on the old



Code:



public void mydo(double difference, string filepath)
{
StringBuilder fileContent = new StringBuilder();
fileContent.AppendLine(" " + String.Format("{0:n}", difference));

using (StreamWriter fileHandler = new StreamWriter(filepath))
{
StringBuilder fileContent2 = new StringBuilder();

fileContent2.AppendLine("<HTML><BODY>");
fileContent2.Append(fileContent.ToString());
fileContent2.AppendLine("</BODY></HTML>");

fileHandler.Write(fileContent2.ToString());
}
}









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    what is in System.Globalization.CultureInfo.CurrentCulture.NumberFormat.NumberGroupSeparator property?

    – vasily.sib
    Nov 19 '18 at 9:04











  • java.com/en/download/help/locale.xml

    – Mitch Wheat
    Nov 19 '18 at 9:04











  • @ Patrick Hofman: it's irrelevant in the article. It talsk about windows, not java per se.

    – Mitch Wheat
    Nov 19 '18 at 9:08













  • A little explanation with the link would be useful then.

    – Patrick Hofman
    Nov 19 '18 at 9:08








  • 1





    @ Patrick Hofman: I assumed someone would be able to click on the link and read it.......I can't spoon feed everyone.

    – Mitch Wheat
    Nov 19 '18 at 9:08
















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I'm a bit at a loss during a server migration where I moved my c# program from one server to another, the problem occured that the thousands separator suddenly changed without my doing. My guess is that its a localization error, but I'm not sure what to do about it.



Both servers are equal in terms of languages installed, ... .



Example:
932Â 830,00 is shown on the new server instead of 932.830,00 like on the old



Code:



public void mydo(double difference, string filepath)
{
StringBuilder fileContent = new StringBuilder();
fileContent.AppendLine(" " + String.Format("{0:n}", difference));

using (StreamWriter fileHandler = new StreamWriter(filepath))
{
StringBuilder fileContent2 = new StringBuilder();

fileContent2.AppendLine("<HTML><BODY>");
fileContent2.Append(fileContent.ToString());
fileContent2.AppendLine("</BODY></HTML>");

fileHandler.Write(fileContent2.ToString());
}
}









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I'm a bit at a loss during a server migration where I moved my c# program from one server to another, the problem occured that the thousands separator suddenly changed without my doing. My guess is that its a localization error, but I'm not sure what to do about it.



Both servers are equal in terms of languages installed, ... .



Example:
932Â 830,00 is shown on the new server instead of 932.830,00 like on the old



Code:



public void mydo(double difference, string filepath)
{
StringBuilder fileContent = new StringBuilder();
fileContent.AppendLine(" " + String.Format("{0:n}", difference));

using (StreamWriter fileHandler = new StreamWriter(filepath))
{
StringBuilder fileContent2 = new StringBuilder();

fileContent2.AppendLine("<HTML><BODY>");
fileContent2.Append(fileContent.ToString());
fileContent2.AppendLine("</BODY></HTML>");

fileHandler.Write(fileContent2.ToString());
}
}






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    what is in System.Globalization.CultureInfo.CurrentCulture.NumberFormat.NumberGroupSeparator property?

    – vasily.sib
    Nov 19 '18 at 9:04











  • java.com/en/download/help/locale.xml

    – Mitch Wheat
    Nov 19 '18 at 9:04











  • @ Patrick Hofman: it's irrelevant in the article. It talsk about windows, not java per se.

    – Mitch Wheat
    Nov 19 '18 at 9:08













  • A little explanation with the link would be useful then.

    – Patrick Hofman
    Nov 19 '18 at 9:08








  • 1





    @ Patrick Hofman: I assumed someone would be able to click on the link and read it.......I can't spoon feed everyone.

    – Mitch Wheat
    Nov 19 '18 at 9:08
















  • 1





    what is in System.Globalization.CultureInfo.CurrentCulture.NumberFormat.NumberGroupSeparator property?

    – vasily.sib
    Nov 19 '18 at 9:04











  • java.com/en/download/help/locale.xml

    – Mitch Wheat
    Nov 19 '18 at 9:04











  • @ Patrick Hofman: it's irrelevant in the article. It talsk about windows, not java per se.

    – Mitch Wheat
    Nov 19 '18 at 9:08













  • A little explanation with the link would be useful then.

    – Patrick Hofman
    Nov 19 '18 at 9:08








  • 1





    @ Patrick Hofman: I assumed someone would be able to click on the link and read it.......I can't spoon feed everyone.

    – Mitch Wheat
    Nov 19 '18 at 9:08










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what is in System.Globalization.CultureInfo.CurrentCulture.NumberFormat.NumberGroupSeparator property?

– vasily.sib
Nov 19 '18 at 9:04





what is in System.Globalization.CultureInfo.CurrentCulture.NumberFormat.NumberGroupSeparator property?

– vasily.sib
Nov 19 '18 at 9:04













java.com/en/download/help/locale.xml

– Mitch Wheat
Nov 19 '18 at 9:04





java.com/en/download/help/locale.xml

– Mitch Wheat
Nov 19 '18 at 9:04













@ Patrick Hofman: it's irrelevant in the article. It talsk about windows, not java per se.

– Mitch Wheat
Nov 19 '18 at 9:08







@ Patrick Hofman: it's irrelevant in the article. It talsk about windows, not java per se.

– Mitch Wheat
Nov 19 '18 at 9:08















A little explanation with the link would be useful then.

– Patrick Hofman
Nov 19 '18 at 9:08







A little explanation with the link would be useful then.

– Patrick Hofman
Nov 19 '18 at 9:08






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@ Patrick Hofman: I assumed someone would be able to click on the link and read it.......I can't spoon feed everyone.

– Mitch Wheat
Nov 19 '18 at 9:08







@ Patrick Hofman: I assumed someone would be able to click on the link and read it.......I can't spoon feed everyone.

– Mitch Wheat
Nov 19 '18 at 9:08














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It seems there are more problems here at the same time:




  • It seems your local regional settings use non-break space as thousands separator and comma as decimal symbol. You should specify a culture in the String.Format or Double.ToString methods to use a specific culture. Rule of thumb: When formatting/parsing numbers always specify a culture (or the InvariantCulture) because the default culture comes from the the current regional settings, which can be different everywhere.

  • The "Â " sequence is a typical sign that an UTF8 text is rendered with ISO-8859-1 or CP1250 (Latin1 8-bit) codepage. So maybe the dumped text is UTF8 (which is the default encoding of the .NET StreamWriter class), whereas if you don't specify the encoding of a HTML4 output it defaults to ISO-8859-1.

  • And actually you want to use the dot as thousands separator and comma as decimal sign.


Explicitly using a culture (eg. German) can solve your problem with the number formatting:



var culture = CultureInfo.GetCultureInfo("de-DE");
fileContent.Append(difference.ToString(culture));


But if the web page contains diacritical letters or other non-ASCII symbols the encoding issue will appear at other places. Make sure you configure both the StreamWriter and the output HTML content to use the same encoding.






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    You can either set your system's locale back to en-US as this says that results in the desired numeric format, which I can't help with because I don't know about your server configuration. Or, you can bypass your system locale with



    String.Format(new CultureInfo("en-US"), "{0:n}", difference);





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    • setting the culture info works. In my case I set it for the thread as a whole then after your answer: Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentCulture = new CultureInfo("de-DE"); what I'm confused about though is why it is a problem. As both servers (aside from the old being 2008 and the new one 2016) are identical.

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      Nov 19 '18 at 10:09











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    It seems there are more problems here at the same time:




    • It seems your local regional settings use non-break space as thousands separator and comma as decimal symbol. You should specify a culture in the String.Format or Double.ToString methods to use a specific culture. Rule of thumb: When formatting/parsing numbers always specify a culture (or the InvariantCulture) because the default culture comes from the the current regional settings, which can be different everywhere.

    • The "Â " sequence is a typical sign that an UTF8 text is rendered with ISO-8859-1 or CP1250 (Latin1 8-bit) codepage. So maybe the dumped text is UTF8 (which is the default encoding of the .NET StreamWriter class), whereas if you don't specify the encoding of a HTML4 output it defaults to ISO-8859-1.

    • And actually you want to use the dot as thousands separator and comma as decimal sign.


    Explicitly using a culture (eg. German) can solve your problem with the number formatting:



    var culture = CultureInfo.GetCultureInfo("de-DE");
    fileContent.Append(difference.ToString(culture));


    But if the web page contains diacritical letters or other non-ASCII symbols the encoding issue will appear at other places. Make sure you configure both the StreamWriter and the output HTML content to use the same encoding.






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      It seems there are more problems here at the same time:




      • It seems your local regional settings use non-break space as thousands separator and comma as decimal symbol. You should specify a culture in the String.Format or Double.ToString methods to use a specific culture. Rule of thumb: When formatting/parsing numbers always specify a culture (or the InvariantCulture) because the default culture comes from the the current regional settings, which can be different everywhere.

      • The "Â " sequence is a typical sign that an UTF8 text is rendered with ISO-8859-1 or CP1250 (Latin1 8-bit) codepage. So maybe the dumped text is UTF8 (which is the default encoding of the .NET StreamWriter class), whereas if you don't specify the encoding of a HTML4 output it defaults to ISO-8859-1.

      • And actually you want to use the dot as thousands separator and comma as decimal sign.


      Explicitly using a culture (eg. German) can solve your problem with the number formatting:



      var culture = CultureInfo.GetCultureInfo("de-DE");
      fileContent.Append(difference.ToString(culture));


      But if the web page contains diacritical letters or other non-ASCII symbols the encoding issue will appear at other places. Make sure you configure both the StreamWriter and the output HTML content to use the same encoding.






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        It seems there are more problems here at the same time:




        • It seems your local regional settings use non-break space as thousands separator and comma as decimal symbol. You should specify a culture in the String.Format or Double.ToString methods to use a specific culture. Rule of thumb: When formatting/parsing numbers always specify a culture (or the InvariantCulture) because the default culture comes from the the current regional settings, which can be different everywhere.

        • The "Â " sequence is a typical sign that an UTF8 text is rendered with ISO-8859-1 or CP1250 (Latin1 8-bit) codepage. So maybe the dumped text is UTF8 (which is the default encoding of the .NET StreamWriter class), whereas if you don't specify the encoding of a HTML4 output it defaults to ISO-8859-1.

        • And actually you want to use the dot as thousands separator and comma as decimal sign.


        Explicitly using a culture (eg. German) can solve your problem with the number formatting:



        var culture = CultureInfo.GetCultureInfo("de-DE");
        fileContent.Append(difference.ToString(culture));


        But if the web page contains diacritical letters or other non-ASCII symbols the encoding issue will appear at other places. Make sure you configure both the StreamWriter and the output HTML content to use the same encoding.






        share|improve this answer















        It seems there are more problems here at the same time:




        • It seems your local regional settings use non-break space as thousands separator and comma as decimal symbol. You should specify a culture in the String.Format or Double.ToString methods to use a specific culture. Rule of thumb: When formatting/parsing numbers always specify a culture (or the InvariantCulture) because the default culture comes from the the current regional settings, which can be different everywhere.

        • The "Â " sequence is a typical sign that an UTF8 text is rendered with ISO-8859-1 or CP1250 (Latin1 8-bit) codepage. So maybe the dumped text is UTF8 (which is the default encoding of the .NET StreamWriter class), whereas if you don't specify the encoding of a HTML4 output it defaults to ISO-8859-1.

        • And actually you want to use the dot as thousands separator and comma as decimal sign.


        Explicitly using a culture (eg. German) can solve your problem with the number formatting:



        var culture = CultureInfo.GetCultureInfo("de-DE");
        fileContent.Append(difference.ToString(culture));


        But if the web page contains diacritical letters or other non-ASCII symbols the encoding issue will appear at other places. Make sure you configure both the StreamWriter and the output HTML content to use the same encoding.







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            You can either set your system's locale back to en-US as this says that results in the desired numeric format, which I can't help with because I don't know about your server configuration. Or, you can bypass your system locale with



            String.Format(new CultureInfo("en-US"), "{0:n}", difference);





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            • setting the culture info works. In my case I set it for the thread as a whole then after your answer: Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentCulture = new CultureInfo("de-DE"); what I'm confused about though is why it is a problem. As both servers (aside from the old being 2008 and the new one 2016) are identical.

              – Thomas
              Nov 19 '18 at 10:09
















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            You can either set your system's locale back to en-US as this says that results in the desired numeric format, which I can't help with because I don't know about your server configuration. Or, you can bypass your system locale with



            String.Format(new CultureInfo("en-US"), "{0:n}", difference);





            share|improve this answer
























            • setting the culture info works. In my case I set it for the thread as a whole then after your answer: Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentCulture = new CultureInfo("de-DE"); what I'm confused about though is why it is a problem. As both servers (aside from the old being 2008 and the new one 2016) are identical.

              – Thomas
              Nov 19 '18 at 10:09














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            You can either set your system's locale back to en-US as this says that results in the desired numeric format, which I can't help with because I don't know about your server configuration. Or, you can bypass your system locale with



            String.Format(new CultureInfo("en-US"), "{0:n}", difference);





            share|improve this answer













            You can either set your system's locale back to en-US as this says that results in the desired numeric format, which I can't help with because I don't know about your server configuration. Or, you can bypass your system locale with



            String.Format(new CultureInfo("en-US"), "{0:n}", difference);






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            • setting the culture info works. In my case I set it for the thread as a whole then after your answer: Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentCulture = new CultureInfo("de-DE"); what I'm confused about though is why it is a problem. As both servers (aside from the old being 2008 and the new one 2016) are identical.

              – Thomas
              Nov 19 '18 at 10:09



















            • setting the culture info works. In my case I set it for the thread as a whole then after your answer: Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentCulture = new CultureInfo("de-DE"); what I'm confused about though is why it is a problem. As both servers (aside from the old being 2008 and the new one 2016) are identical.

              – Thomas
              Nov 19 '18 at 10:09

















            setting the culture info works. In my case I set it for the thread as a whole then after your answer: Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentCulture = new CultureInfo("de-DE"); what I'm confused about though is why it is a problem. As both servers (aside from the old being 2008 and the new one 2016) are identical.

            – Thomas
            Nov 19 '18 at 10:09





            setting the culture info works. In my case I set it for the thread as a whole then after your answer: Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentCulture = new CultureInfo("de-DE"); what I'm confused about though is why it is a problem. As both servers (aside from the old being 2008 and the new one 2016) are identical.

            – Thomas
            Nov 19 '18 at 10:09


















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