RE: Decimal separator with more than one character?

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> Has anyone ever heard of a situation where the decimal separator in a
> number is more than one character? Usually it's a single character such
> as "." or ",", but we're wondering if there are any situations where
> more than one character is used.

Define "one character" :-) I know that at least in some Linux locales the Farsi
locale has a decimal separator that is more than one _byte_ since that is how it
encodes in UTF-8.

> Deborah Goldsmith
> Manager, Fonts / Unicode Liaison
> Apple Computer, Inc.
> goldsmit@apple.com

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