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Despite being the conventional standard (and the LUX default), Great Britain and the United States are two of the few places in the world that use a period to indicate the decimal place. Many other countries use a comma instead. Likewise, while the UK and US often use a comma to separate groups of thousands, many other countries use a period instead, and some countries separate groups of thousands with a thin space.
Region | Format |
|---|---|
US and UK | 1,275.28 |
Most European countries | 1.275,00 |
As with Date and Time above, all applications built for Verint should allow the decimal character defaults to be automatically changed based on the users specified browser locale (or by a manual setting, if an application allows it). Details of conventions for specific countries and regions are available here.
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English Text Length | Expansion |
|---|---|
1 - 10 | 100 - 200% |
11 - 20 | 80 - 100% |
21 - 30 | 60 - 80% |
31 - 50 | 40 - 60% |
51 - 70 | 50 - 70% |
71+ | 30% |
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Language expansion
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In addition to English text length, the target language also has an impact upon the amount of expansion. The following table shows the expansion factor for the English text “Share” into various languages:
Language | “Share” | Expansion Factor |
|---|---|---|
English | Share | 1.0 |
German | Freigeben | 1.8 |
French | Partager | 1.5 |
Spanish | Compartir | 1.8 |
Italian | Condividi | 1.7 |
Japanese | 共有 | 0.8 |
Chinese | 共享 | 0.8 |
Korean | 공유 | 0.7 |
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In general, Asian languages use less space as they tend to be more compact than European languages.
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