From: Francois Yergeau (FYergeau@alis.com)
Date: Thu May 13 2004 - 13:29:26 CDT
Peter Constable a écrit :
> Moreover, you would never label a document for a
> number format in order to determine how automated-formatting
> of numbers should be done on the receiving system.
You would not label it to determine formatting on the receiving system, but
to determine interpretation (parsing) of formatted values in the received
data. You need to know what the convention is to interpret the number
123.456 or the date 02/03/04.
-- François
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