--- Stefan Bodewig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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.
The thing about using a pattern of #s big enough to
accommodate Long.MAX_VALUE / 60000?
>
> > 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.
>
Damned Americans. :)
-Matt
> Stefan
>
>
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