public static function normalize($value)
    {
        $convert = localeconv();
        $value = str_replace($convert['thousands_sep'], "",(string) $value);
        $value = str_replace($convert['positive_sign'], "", $value);
        $value = str_replace($convert['decimal_point'], ".",$value);
        if (!empty($convert['negative_sign']) and (strpos($value, $convert['negative_sign']))) {
            $value = str_replace($convert['negative_sign'], "", $value);
            $value = "-" . $value;
        }

        return $value;
    }