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    Darek commented  · 

    Hi!

    Although in Poland we don't use such large numbers for costs (1 zł is around USD3.80 now), we use yet another formatting for numbers, which may be confusing for Polish Splitwise users.

    1. For digit grouping, we use spaces, so one million zł is 1 000 000 zł.
    2. As a decimal separator we use a comma, not a period. So, 2 zł and 69 gr (1 gr equals 1/100 zł) is 2,69 zł.

    The current format in Splitwise is PLN2.69. We don't really mind having "PLN" instead of "zł", or having the currency code before the numbers instead of it following them. What actually confuses us (Polish users) is the digit grouping and decimal separators, which may lead us to expensive mistakes :) I think that having it as e.g. PLN 1 234 567,89 instead of PLN 1,234,567.89 would help Polish guys a lot. I don't know how much effort it takes, and I think there are other countries out there with the same issue, so maybe just adding an option to choose the format helps. Automatic setting may come later time.

    P.S. Thank you Support for a quick reply on the Polish translation topic. I'd love to participate, so I await for your colleague to get in touch with me, as you've said in the e-mail.

    Cheers!

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