Decimal mark (dot or comma)

[jrusinek]

The number type doesn't accept comma as decimal mark, only dot. 40% percent of people are forced then to modify the plugin or write custom rules.

Parameter would be very cool.

[karczk]

Good idea. In every project I have to overwrite the following methods by loading custom script after jquery-validation:
$.validator.methods.range
$.validator.methods.number

[staabm]

Changing number to allow also floats would be a BC break. Also adding floats would require to know which sign is the separator, sometimes its comma, sometimes its a dot -> l10n

[staabm]

Hmm just read the html5 spec, which defines it to allow floating numbers. Therefore it seems we need to change that for spec compilance
http://www.w3.org/TR/html-markup/input.number.html

Could you PR a unit test and your patch?

[jrusinek]

Would adding two options (decimal-mark, thousand-mark) with default values be a bad idea?

[staabm]

I re-read your initial post. I didn't got what you mean at first.

I think we should decide which separator to use based on a locale, maybe even with a override using a parameter/config-option

[jrusinek]

Sorry if I wasn't clear enough. Glad you know what I meant.

When you mention locales, I immediately think about Microsoft's jQuery Globalization, but I just heard the name and have no experience with that, so it's up to you how this thing should be handled.

[hidegh]

this stuff can be done with globalize and https://github.com/johnnyreilly/jquery-validation-globalize

[jzaefferer]

This number method implementation in src/localization/methods_de.js does that. You could just use that implementation, with whatever locale uses the same format.

Eventually this will get addressed by #581, but that will likely still take a while. As mentioned there and in the comment above, the jquery-validation-globalize project can be used right now.