To: atm{at}shore.net
From: Jim Burrows 
Reply-To: Jim Burrows 


At 18:26 2003-03-05 -0500, James Lerch wrote:

>Our European friends have found a flaw in the FigureXP code.  The flaw
>relates to 'Regional Settings' and how Decimal numbers are represented.
>Certain European areas represent decimal notation with a ","
instead of a
>"." (IE one and one half millimeter is written 1,5mm instead of 1.5mm)

If you started coding early, like I did with Pascal 1.0 (1,0 ),
the "." was hard-wired, and you have to sift through your code to
"globalize" number IO.  Nils Olof and I had a trade - he'd get
the Euros to use ".", and I'd talk the reactionary Americans to
go metric - we're still working .

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