[Emacspeak] Re: A heart stopper!

[Greg Priest-Dorman <gpriestdorman@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

What was the spacing or punctuation?  

I'm running 54.0 and this is what I hear written out with numbers in a text buffer:

  $12,345.67  is read as "Dollar twelve comma three hundred and forty five dot sixty seven"
  $12345.67   is read as  "Dollar twelve thousand three hundred and forty five dot sixty seven"
 

I wonder if they put a space between the thousands and hundreds:

$12 345.67 is read as "Dollar twelve  three hundred and forty five dot sixty seven"

-Greg

On Fri, Feb 3, 2023 at 1:29 PM Tim Cross via Emacspeak <emacspeak@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

apologies, hit send by accident.

anyway, what I was wanting to say is that today, an email from my bank
regarding one of my accounts was read out as eleven dollars nine eight
five dot thirty. I wasn't really paying close attention and nearly had a
heart attack when I heard emacspeak say "your bank account has eleven
dollars"

The actual balance in that account is eleven thousand nine hundred and
eighty five dollars and 30 cents.

Not sure if this is a bug or just something to be aware of (I'd not
noticed it before). This is with latest code pulled from git a couple of
days ago.

Tim Cross <theophilusx@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> Every week, one of my banks sends me an email advising me of my current
> balance.
>
> Today, emacspeak read out the balance as "you have eleven dollars
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