In my Windows Phone 8 application I have a text box which uses InputScopeNameValue.Number to elicit a currency amount from the user.
The OnBackKeyPress override is parsing the string value of the text box into a decimal value:
base.OnBackKeyPress(e);
decimal price = 0m;
var value = PriceControl.PropertyValue;
NumberStyles style = NumberStyles.Number;
CultureInfo culture = System.Threading.Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentCulture;
if (string.IsNullOrEmpty(PriceControl.PropertyValue) ||
decimal.TryParse(value, style, culture, out price))
{
App.ViewModel.SelectedProduct.Price = price;
}
else
{
e.Cancel = true;
}
Everything works as expected for en-US, but once I switch the Region setting of the Windows Phone emulator to de-CH (Switzerland, but other European cultures such as de-DE have the same issue) the following things happen:
The on-screen keyboard now shows a ',' (comma) rather than a '.' (period) along with keys for the digits
The culture.NumberFormat.CurrrencyDecimal.Separator is still '.' as is the culture.NumberFormat.NumberDecimalSeparator (period). Therefore the decimal number entered using the keyboard cannot be successfully parsed!
Is there a way around this? The mismatch between the separator symbol on the keyboard (comma) and the separator in the corresponding NumberFormat seems strange.
