From: Maarten Sneep <maarten.sneep@xs4all.nl>
Subject: Re: Re[2]: units and decimal separators
Date: Thu, 15 May 2003 11:01:11 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <C6868CA6-86B3-11D7-AEF7-000393780830@xs4all.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <85184854-86AE-11D7-B14C-0003931DEF94@levana.de>
On donderdag, mei 15, 2003, at 10:23 Europe/Amsterdam, Patrick Gundlach
wrote:
> Hi,
>
>> SR> In french thousand are separated by a space, and not by a dot.
>>
>
> Same in Germany. Don't know about the other german speaking countries.
>
> Every operating system I know has a mapping "Location <--> some
> settings" where "some settings" is language, decimal seperator,
> thousands seperator, date format, input encoding :) (keyboard) ...
>
> So imo this won't be a bad idea to integrate into ConTeXt.
and this is very system dependent. Integrating would be hard.
Besides, I never use the standard dutch settings, since they are
confusing: comma as the decimal separator, a period for the thousands.
I usually do not separate the thousands at all (or with a thin space)
and use comma or period for the decimals.
Maarten
It isn't true unless it makes you laugh, but you don't understand it
until it makes you cry.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-05-15 9:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-05-11 15:19 Sebastian Rooks
2003-05-11 17:36 ` Willi Egger
2003-05-11 17:55 ` Eckhart Guthöhrlein
2003-05-11 21:31 ` Sebastian Rooks
2003-05-11 21:39 ` Re[2]: " Giuseppe Bilotta
2003-05-12 15:57 ` Hans Hagen
2003-05-12 23:02 ` Re[3]: " Giuseppe Bilotta
2003-05-14 22:05 ` Sebastian Rooks
2003-05-14 22:17 ` Re[2]: " Giuseppe Bilotta
2003-05-15 6:46 ` Henning Hraban Ramm
2003-05-15 7:56 ` Re[2]: " Mari Voipio
2003-05-15 8:23 ` Patrick Gundlach
2003-05-15 9:01 ` Maarten Sneep [this message]
2003-05-15 9:24 ` Patrick Gundlach
2003-05-15 10:15 ` Eckhart Guthöhrlein
2003-05-11 20:41 ` Emil Hedevang Lohse
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