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Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2004 12:16:05 +0200
From: Georg Bauhaus <sb463ba@uni-duisburg.de>
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Subject: Re: decimal separator (international?
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Chris Kaese wrote:
> Georg Bauhaus <sb463ba@l1-hrz.uni-duisburg.de> wrote in message news:<clb1at$9mv$2@a1-hrz.uni-duisburg.de>...
> 
>>>And it is not correct for Switzerland, I'd say.
>>
>>123'456.89
> 
> 
> I am not Swiss, but Swiss websites seem to use the comma as decimal
> separator; e.g. ebay.ch, websites of various banks, nestle.ch.

In a project for a Swiss ensurance company we had been given
quite specific instructions. They specified the above format.
However, I have seen both formats used by the very same organisation.

Not related to the project, some links:

http://zefix.admin.ch/shabpdf/current/046-08032004-1.pdf

http://www.estv.admin.ch/data/sd/d/verstat/ver97.pdf

(The web pages also use comma, for example in percentages.)

> Are you sure you can do, for example, online banking in Switzerland
> using a point as a decimal separator? I wouldn't have thought so.
> Swiss keyboards, after all, seem to have a comma on the number pad,
> not a point.

number pads of computer keyboards do not usually control the ideas of
those responsible for the specification of the requirements for
using . or , in separating decimals. :-)

I think if there is a problem at all the solution is pretty obvious:
Don't use anything for grouping that could legitimately be used for
separating. Has anyone seen '_' (or ' ') seperating the fractional
part from the integer part? ;-)

Georg