From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 12014d,7134e36a23e57417 X-Google-Thread: 103376,aa463d25bcbdaa7 X-Google-Attributes: gid12014d,gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII Path: g2news1.google.com!news1.google.com!news.glorb.com!news.cs.univ-paris8.fr!news.solace.mh.se!news.hacking.dk!pnx.dk!not-for-mail From: Jacob Sparre Andersen Newsgroups: misc.metric-system,comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: decimal separator (international? Date: 22 Oct 2004 21:29:51 +0200 Organization: hacking.dk - Doing fun stuff with open source Sender: sparre@sparre.crs4.it Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: 80.241.165.47 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: xyzzy.adsl.dk 1098473474 17345 80.241.165.47 (22 Oct 2004 19:31:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@news.hacking.dk NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2004 19:31:14 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 Xref: g2news1.google.com misc.metric-system:1360 comp.lang.ada:5650 Date: 2004-10-22T21:29:51+02:00 List-Id: Erik Naggum wrote: > Georg Bauhaus wrote: > > And it is not correct for Switzerland, I'd say. > > 123'456.89 > > Yes, '. > The English usage of ' and " for inches and feet, and usage of > ' and " for minutes and seconds are sufficiently disambiguated from > such numbers that I believe no normal reader would consider the > possibility of a new ambiguity in these cases. I have seen both �degrees'minutes.decimals� and �degrees'minutes"seconds.decimals�, so I wouldn't bet on it. Jacob -- "Those who profess to favor freedom and yet depreciate agitation, are people who want crops without ploughing the ground; they want rain without thunder and lightning; they want the ocean without the roar of its waters." -- Frederick Douglas