asked 2014-02-04 09:07:04 +0200
In HTML5 there exists a tag for form field (type="number") that triggers the browser to show only a numeric keyboard. In Switzerland we use the "." key as delimiter. However the Browser on the Jolla device only shows the "," key. This makes it impossible to enter decimal values in such field.
Sample page, e.g. at http://www.w3schools.com/html/tryit.asp?filename=tryhtml5_input_type_number (right side).
answered 2014-02-04 11:03:15 +0200
Thanks for reporting this. Numeric keypad at the moment selects between "." and "," based on device language. Like your example illustrates this is problematic solution, since sometimes proper layout is different than device language and changing device language requires restart of user interface.
We are considering alternatives to solving this. One idea would be to offer alternative separator behind long tap of separator, another solution would be having similiar kind of change layout button as normal virtual keyboard layout has.
Another option, probably the cleanest one, is to work out the language of the web page (or that particular field) and set the delimiter accordingly. You may have German vkb (delimiter: comma), German language (delimiter: comma) activated in Sailfish but be visiting an English webpage (delimiter: dot): The server in the background would expect the dot as delimiter. (And to cater for misinterpretations by the software, still tap-and-hold accent the other delimiter.)
jgr ( 2014-02-04 11:26:14 +0200 )edit@veskuh: I'd prefer a more fine-grained locale settings https://together.jolla.com/question/931/enable-more-refined-locale-settings-that-are-respected-by-system-and-3rd-party-apps/ That way I can use English as UI language, but still get Swedish delimiter, metric units, "correct" date format etc
Mohjive ( 2014-02-04 12:02:51 +0200 )editanswered 2018-01-06 17:05:50 +0200
can anybody please make a patch for this problem via openrepos? jolla couldn't fix this since 2014 :-( how hard can it be?
Asked: 2014-02-04 09:07:04 +0200
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