From: Georg Bauhaus <sb463ba@uni-duisburg.de>
Subject: Re: decimal separator (international?
Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2004 12:16:05 +0200
Date: 2004-10-25T14:12:18+02:00 [thread overview]
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In-Reply-To: <d4a75c1f.0410231054.1c2230c4@posting.google.com>
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
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2004-10-22 10:20 ` decimal separator (international? Peter Hermann
2004-10-22 13:18 ` Georg Bauhaus
2004-10-22 16:20 ` Erik Naggum
2004-10-22 19:29 ` Jacob Sparre Andersen
2004-10-22 20:45 ` Erik Naggum
2004-10-23 18:54 ` Chris Kaese
2004-10-25 10:16 ` Georg Bauhaus [this message]
2004-10-29 9:52 ` Stefan L�rchner
2004-10-29 9:59 ` Adrien Plisson
2004-10-29 10:23 ` Julian Bradfield
2004-10-29 11:22 ` Markus Kuhn
2004-10-29 12:41 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2004-10-29 13:43 ` Erik Naggum
2004-10-29 13:55 ` Julian Bradfield
2004-10-29 15:05 ` Erik Naggum
2004-10-29 15:29 ` Julian Bradfield
2004-10-30 12:15 ` Binary prefixes in Google's calculator Markus Kuhn
2004-10-30 14:23 ` Binary prefixes and decimal separators " Björn Persson
2004-10-29 12:58 ` decimal separator (international? Peter Hermann
2004-10-29 14:41 ` Björn Persson
2004-10-29 15:15 ` Frank J. Lhota
2004-10-29 15:48 ` Peter Hermann
2004-10-29 16:31 ` Frank J. Lhota
2004-10-29 19:18 ` Larry Kilgallen
2004-11-01 10:14 ` Anders Wirzenius
2004-11-01 18:53 ` Octal number system Andrew Nowicki
2004-11-01 21:47 ` Björn Persson
2004-11-02 1:04 ` Jeffrey Carter
2004-10-29 16:09 ` decimal separator (international? Andreas Prilop
2004-10-30 9:46 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2004-10-29 14:21 ` Gee Pee (was: decimal separator (international?) Christoph Paeper
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