Item tooltips do not have digit separators for large numbers

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mezz opened this issue 8 years ago · 3 comments

Numbers like 10000000 should be formatted with digit separators to make them easier to read, like 10,000,000 or 10.000.000 depending on locale.

mezz · Answer 1 · 2016-10-28T05:49:03.000Z

Separators help with questions like "about how much is this?":
1000200040
Is it over 100 million, 1 billion, 10 billion, 100 billion?

It's a lot easier to see the magnitude when you have separators:
1,000,200,040

Ellpeck · Answer 2 · 2016-10-28T05:27:38.000Z

Should they?
Is there an easy way?

mezz · Answer 3 · 2016-10-28T05:32:01.000Z

I think you can just use NumberFormat.getInstance().format(long) and it will use the current default locale automatically.