Re: Still on i18n

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

At 08:47 AM 2/14/01 +0100, S2P development wrote:
>Giuseppe Bilotta wrote:
>> 
>> Hello,
>> 
>> there's one point I would like to make on i18n: proper
>> support for different decimal/thousand separators;
>> different languages use different symbols (mostly, they swap
>> the meaning of comma and dot); this should be taken in
>> consideration esp. when typesetting math formulas, to take
>> care of correct spacing.
>
>Yes, but how?
>
>It should probably be done, but input syntax is very nasty.
>Even if $10,50$ is a number, $[10, 50]$ isn't. If somebody
>can think of a reasonable algorithm to decide when to do what,
>I'd be very happy to implement it 
>
>(unf., you can't 'just' make stuff like dot and comma \active).
>It's not just numbers, there are some other language changes
>in math typesetting. Waiting for MathML in context support 
>might be the best solution :-)

There is a file supp-num.tex in the distribution which have some digit
manipulation macros. They even work -) 

Hans
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