VDI sizes display with incorrect decimal separator

[Joe]

My locale settings specify . as the decimal separator (and , as the thousands separator), but in the details pane and in the virtual media manager, sizes of VDI files display with a , as the decimal separator e.g. 38,95 MB or 10,92 GB. (Expected display: 38.95 MB or 10.92 GB.)

Applies to Virtualbox main window - details pane, and virtual media manager; all guest types.

Vbox 4.0.10 r 72479 (and all previous versions as far as I can recall). OS: Ubuntu 10.10 64 bit.

System commands such as df -h and tools like GNOME System Monitor all display sizes with a . for the decimal separator.

Output of locale at the command line:

LANG=en_ZA.utf8
LC_CTYPE="en_ZA.utf8"
LC_NUMERIC="en_ZA.utf8"
LC_TIME="en_ZA.utf8"
LC_COLLATE="en_ZA.utf8"
LC_MONETARY="en_ZA.utf8"
LC_MESSAGES="en_ZA.utf8"
LC_PAPER="en_ZA.utf8"
LC_NAME="en_ZA.utf8"
LC_ADDRESS="en_ZA.utf8"
LC_TELEPHONE="en_ZA.utf8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="en_ZA.utf8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_ZA.utf8"
LC_ALL=

[Frank Mehnert]

I can reproduce this but I have no idea why this doesn't work. Seems to be a Qt bug because it works (for instance) with en_US.UTF8.

[aeichner]

Please reopen if still relevant with a recent VirtualBox release.