On Mon, 25 Aug 2008, Matt Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: --- Stefan Bodewig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> AFAICT making the thousands separator go away takes >> the same amount of >> coding effort as making it use the US locale. > > Agreed wrt required effort; I also agree that no > thousands separator is preferable to ambiguity. I had shown a way to get rid of the thousands separator in my initial post and just forgot about it. It's gone now. > Another option is to provide localization bundles, but > that's obviously a MUCH larger task. ;) And something I wouldn't want to do. I remember that I had a hard time when I first encountered a localized AIX system and my terminal told me there was a "Rundsendenachricht von root" - it took me pretty long to translate that back into "broadcast message" and understand what the message was supposed to say. Stefan --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
