[Emacspeak] Re: A heart stopper!

[Tim Cross <theophilusx@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Greg Priest-Dorman via Emacspeak <emacspeak(a)emacspeak.org> writes:

> What was the spacing or punctuation?  

The exact content copied directly from the message is

has a balance of $11,985.33, available balance is 

I'm now over the shock - for a second I was very worried as this is my
beer account and the temp here for the last week has been > 32
C. (89.6F)! I need my cold beer! $11 would be gone before breaky



>
> 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(a)emacspeak.org> 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(a)gmail.com> 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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