Re: Very small bug in chapter 1.3

[Bruno Haible]

Wolfram Strempfer wrote:
> you say, that in Germany, we are
> representing the number sample as 12.345,67.
>
> ... in normal day-by-day use, Germans do not separate the
> thousands by a dot. I am thus used to the French style of number
> representation.

Apparently there are different styles being used in Germany. So, you
learned to write

             12345,67

whereas I learned (in Germany as well) to use a space [1] as thousands
separator:

             12 345,67

and other people [2] want a dot:

             12.345,67

and even other people [3] want an apostrophe:

             12'345,67

The glibc locale for Germany uses a dot; so let's just assume this is the
mainstream style.

Bruno


[1] http://www.uni-jena.de/biologie/ieu/ew/html-dyn/ Diplomarbeit%20Hinweise.pdf
[2] 
http://www.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/iga/isb/isb-hauptframe/sbr-schriften/Merkblatt-Manuskriptgestaltung-SBR.pdf
[3] http://www.smartbooks.ch/inhaltsverzeichnis/ lexikon_informatik.pdf