> >The "old currencies" on the continent (German Mark, Dutch guilder, French
> >frank) however use a period to devide the groups and a comma as a decimal
> >sign.
>
> Some use a full stop as the thousands separator and some use a
> numeric (nonbreaking) space. Switzerland uses an apostrophe for the
> thousands separator, I believe.
Yes, Switzerland uses an apostrophe.
France does use a comma for the decimal separator, but uses a non-breaking,
non expansible (constant size) space to group digits 3 by 3, and not a dot:
1 799 237,59
Check your Palm if you have one. Last time I looked, their number formats
were okay.
YA
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