Re: EXIF support in PNG

Some countries (France by example) use the comma character to separate the decimal part from the integer part.  They use the period character to separate groups of 3 digits in the integer part. “(...).mega.kilo.unit,decimals”.

That’s call localization and it is annoying for all the programmers whose take the time to make well coded software.  However, that’s also makes earth a less boring place to live (or code)!

I am a French Quebecer (Canadian) and here we are using the comma character to separate the decimal part from the integer part but the space character to separate groups of 3 digits in the integer part.

However I prefer configuring my Windows to use period character instead of comma and no separator character at all to separate groups of 3 digits.  Less confusion when switching from coding to some other programs and a simple double-click select a complete number ready for a copy/paste.

Useful Hack: There is also this problem with the period character on the numerical pad for people using comma.  But for that I found this trick that let you reassign any characters to any keys on your keyboard.  I use that trick to exchange my CAPSLOCK key with the SCROLLLOCK key.  When I accidently hit the CAPSLOCK key it turned on the ScrollLock and does nothing (in almost all todays applications).  Using this trick you can assign a comma character to your numerical pad period character.
http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows-vista/disable-caps-lock-key-in-windows-vista/


By the way I am not back.  I never left.  I was simply silently reading the PNG message list all this time.  Maybe I am not alone doing that so we may have a quorum for an eventual vote on exIF.

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From: Glenn Randers-Pehrson 
Sent: Friday, January 13, 2017 2:11 PM
To: PNG/MNG discussion list 
Subject: Re: [png-mng-misc] EXIF support in PNG

The report about the large resolution number in EXIF was on the ImageMagick "issues" at github:
https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/issues/351

The "bug" was that they had used a comma for decimal point:

$ exiftool -a image.jpg | grep Resolution
Resolution Unit                 : cm
X Resolution                    : 28
Y Resolution                    : 28
X Resolution                    : 71
Y Resolution                    : 71
Resolution Unit                 : inches
X Resolution                    : 28,346
Y Resolution                    : 28,346
Resolution Unit                 : CentimeterGlenn

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