Support string to float conversion

[machielg]

I'm struggling with parsing different representations of numbers (e.g. "10,0", "10.0", "1.000,00"). Id would be cool if i18n could support parsing strings to floats, as it already can deal with the different locales.

[verkestk]

That's a great idea. I'll add it to the list of desired features.

I won't be getting to it very soon - I'll be out on maternity leave soon.