Re[2]: units and decimal separators

[Giuseppe Bilotta <gip.bilotta@iol.it>]

Thursday, May 15, 2003 Sebastian Rooks wrote:

>>As far as I know, most European languages (that is, except for
>>English) use the dot to separate thousands and the comma to
>>separate integer part from decimals.

SR> In french thousand are separated by a space, and not by a dot.

Oh. Didn't know that :) (Actually I've seen a thin space used
in some Italian books, too --and if you want my Very Personal
Opinion, it's more legible, except in the few cases where it
may generate confusion ...)

>> So setting this math
>>option for European (non-Anglo-saxon) languages *would* make
>>sense. It should probably fit together with the lang-mat
>>module I've been sparsely working at, where common function
>>names (like sin, cos, tg) are given "local" names (like: sen,
>>cos, tan in Italian).

SR> That would be great ! (and in case of need, frenchies are
SR> using sin, cos and tan ;-) )

Good to know :)

-- 
Giuseppe "Oblomov" Bilotta