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[David Herren]

Virtually everywhere in the world other than the US uses a comma to  
indicate decimal fractions, correct? Certainly in Spain, Italy,  
France, etc. I've only been in the UK once and didn't happen to  
notice while there. (as far as I know, the US is also the only  
country that doesn't know what a  milliard is and mistakenly calls it  
a billion...)

On Dec 2, 2005, at 1:55 PM, Michel Fortin wrote:


> The other problem is that you cannot always count on the alignment  

> character to be a dot. If French, for example, the decimal  

> separator is a comma. And there may be some uses for other  

> characters as well, I'm thinking about '/' or ':' to align ratios.



/david

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