We need separate language option and localization settings

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Timo Sillander

• January 22, 2014 08:28

Podio currently offers the option to select your language, not localization. This is a problem, since the two of them don't always go hand in hand.

Case in point:

In multilingual organizations, english is often the language used and thus the preferred language for both content and user interfaces. With money, however, you need unambiguous rules for thousands separator and decimal separators. When using british english, the thousands separator is a comma and the decimal separator is a period. For, say, german, it's the other way 'round. This has the potential to easily generate catastrophic errors in data entry.

This problem is further emphasized by the Podio mobile app. It uses every user's phone's individual settings for both localization and language. If that language is available in Podio, that is – otherwise it'll revert to english (not sure which one, there's no indication). There's no way to match these with the Podio web service settings.

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  Panu Heinonen

  • October 13, 2014 07:49

  I totally agree! In Finnish (and swedish) keyboard layout, there is COMMA in number pad. So when entering decimals with that, the numbers go waaay wrong!

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  Juhani Kantola

  • November 11, 2015 08:38

  I agree, please fix this!!!

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  Sara Høeg Højlund-Rasmussen

  • November 13, 2015 11:51

  Thanks guys! We have this shared internally and will discuss how to fix it in the future. No promise yet as it is a big change to the user settings in Podio.

  //Sara - Podio

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