On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 3:20 PM, Giovanni Bajo <rasky@develer.com> wrote:
On Thu, 12 Mar 2009 00:49:24 -0700, Raymond Hettinger wrote:
[spir]
Probably you know that already, but it doesn't hurt anyway. In french and most rroman languages comma is the standard decimal sep; and either space or dot is used, when necessary, to sep thousands. (It's veeery difficult for me to read even short numbers with commas used as thousand separator.)
en: 1,234,567.89 fr: 1.234.567,89 or: 1 234 567,89
I'll notice that the international standard is to use just space:
http://www.bipm.org/jsp/en/ViewCGPMResolution.jsp?CGPM=22&RES=10
Of course, that's primarily a /scientific/ standard; others have explained that commas are apparently the international /financial/ standard. "Aren't standards great? There's so many to choose from!" This thread continues to get more complicated by the day... (Localization doth be *hard*) Cheers, Chris -- I have a blog: http://blog.rebertia.com