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Aethelwer
Frank G
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Finland?! Nifty! Finnish is one of the best languages around, if you like noun cases like I do.

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Sweden uses commas too, but I don't have a problem using points when I know I will show the figures to some off-worlder.

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Harry
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The proper Duth way is:
�100.000.000.000,000

OR

�100 000 000 000,000 (used in printed txt mostly, like maths books)

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Fabrux
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One million currency units in french would be:

1 000 000,00 $

or

1 000 000,00 � (I'm not sure if that's the symbol for francs...)

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Michael Dracon
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Prakesh: That's one zero to many after the comma, in both cases

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Mikey T
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I just saw the Galaxy Class saucer dementions on the Art of STar Trek book. But its in feet...

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Isn't localization/internationalization (l10n, i18n in geekspeak) fun?

There's no "correct" way to format numbers; even within a single country there are sub-fields that do it differently; for example, in the US locale, you don't use commas as "thousands separators" for any science-type numbers; conversely, in financial matters you use parentheses instead of dashes for negative numbers. The US and Canada agree on periods as decimal place indicators, but Canada officially uses spaces as thousands separators while the US uses commas.

As a software developer working on user-level applications for a world-wide market, you get used to these things. Take nothing for granted. We're lucky that the whole world uses base 10 and (mostly) just the Arabic digits 0-9 - but when you have right-to-left text (Hebrew, Arabic) and left-to-right numbers (e.g. "!dlrow 123 olleH"), even that complicates things!


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