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Warren W. Gay VE3WWG <ve3wwg@cogeco.ca> wrote:
 
:  If I were to make a flying leap and
: guess, I would say that neither Java, nor C# have
: a standard routine to do this for the programmer

For Java, there is a NumberFormat class (hierarchy) which uses
format strings. Quite flexible, we used them for amounts
of money in Swiss notation which uses ' as a group separator.
Floats in Java is another story though.