Bug 26984

Summary: style properties depend on locale.
Product: WebKit Reporter: arno. <a.renevier>
Component: WebKitGTKAssignee: Nobody <webkit-unassigned>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE    
Severity: Normal CC: jmalonzo
Priority: P2    
Version: 528+ (Nightly build)   
Hardware: PC   
OS: OS X 10.5   
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Description arno. 2009-07-05 14:05:25 PDT
Hi,
style properties (as read with javascript) depend on locale.
For example, following piece of code:

    p.style.width = '100.5px';
    alert(p.style.width);

show 100,5px with  a french locale and 100.5px with an english locale (decimal separator is not the same).
That makes comparaison and parsing of those results nearly impossible in a cross-locale way.
Moreover, as parseFloat is not locale dependant, 

p.style.opacity = 0.5;
parseFloat(p.style.opacity);

shows 0 with a french locale and 0.5 with an english locale.
That's quite disturbing.

Setting to gtk component as I don't known if it happens with other backends.
Comment 1 arno. 2009-07-05 14:07:00 PDT
Created attachment 32282 [details]
testcase
Comment 2 Jan Alonzo 2009-07-06 04:39:22 PDT
(In reply to comment #0)
> Hi,
> style properties (as read with javascript) depend on locale.
> For example, following piece of code:
> 
>     p.style.width = '100.5px';
>     alert(p.style.width);
> 
> show 100,5px with  a french locale and 100.5px with an english locale (decimal
> separator is not the same).
> That makes comparaison and parsing of those results nearly impossible in a
> cross-locale way.
> Moreover, as parseFloat is not locale dependant, 
> 
> p.style.opacity = 0.5;
> parseFloat(p.style.opacity);
> 
> shows 0 with a french locale and 0.5 with an english locale.
> That's quite disturbing.
> 
> Setting to gtk component as I don't known if it happens with other backends.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 18994 ***