Thursday, May 15, 2003 Sebastian Rooks wrote:
As far as I know, most European languages (that is, except for English) use the dot to separate thousands and the comma to separate integer part from decimals.
SR> In french thousand are separated by a space, and not by a dot. Oh. Didn't know that :) (Actually I've seen a thin space used in some Italian books, too --and if you want my Very Personal Opinion, it's more legible, except in the few cases where it may generate confusion ...)
So setting this math option for European (non-Anglo-saxon) languages *would* make sense. It should probably fit together with the lang-mat module I've been sparsely working at, where common function names (like sin, cos, tg) are given "local" names (like: sen, cos, tan in Italian).
SR> That would be great ! (and in case of need, frenchies are SR> using sin, cos and tan ;-) ) Good to know :) -- Giuseppe "Oblomov" Bilotta