newRPL: Number formatting on screen

[Claudio L.]

(07-10-2015 10:32 PM)Paul Dale Wrote:  What about a second visually distinguishable zero character for the non-significant digits for this mode? A smaller zero perhaps?

The display would be: 314200.
Maybe even superscript or subscript the smaller digits.


- Pauli

Not so sure about that: using weird Unicode characters will look great if you only use for display, but I'd prefer if the same formatting routine could be used to generate a string that you can use in a program. Yes, strings will be fully Unicode compliant, but if you output that to a text file on the SD card and try to import in Excel or parse in any other program, good luck with the special characters.
That would force me to write 2 routines: one to convert to text, and a different one for display.
I was hoping for the same routine to be used for display, for text conversion and to decompile reals for the command line.