Polychronis Why must you change the delimit character just because your currency symbol has commas in it? In the states we have commas in our currencies and I don't need to do that. What am I missing?
David Blocker ----- Original Message ----- From: "ELOEN" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Rbase List Server" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, November 06, 2002 6:16 AM Subject: Currency convention (A) should be independent of delimiter char (,) > As a greek user, I should have been using currency convention A for > currency: Thousands delimiter: (.)-period, decimal delimiter: (,)-comma. > > I've constantly refrained from this choice for two reasons: > > 1. I had to use another char delimit, for example: (!) > Imagine writing programs with (!) instead of (,). You are just alone. If a > problem occurs that has to do with delimit char, who is going to think about > it? One Greek and a few Germans... > 2. ODBC and Ottero. If I'm right they need standard delimit char to work ok. > You can always change delimit char temporarily, but in a multi user > environment this could lead to a mess. > > So, if I'm right currency convention should be independent of delimiter > char. Don't ask me how... > > Polychronis T. Kontos > Athens, Greece > > > ================================================ > TO SEE MESSAGE POSTING GUIDELINES: > Send a plain text email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > In the message body, put just two words: INTRO rbase-l > ================================================ > TO UNSUBSCRIBE: send a plain text email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > In the message body, put just two words: UNSUBSCRIBE rbase-l > ================================================ > TO SEARCH ARCHIVES: > http://www.mail-archive.com/rbase-l%40sonetmail.com/ > ================================================ TO SEE MESSAGE POSTING GUIDELINES: Send a plain text email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the message body, put just two words: INTRO rbase-l ================================================ TO UNSUBSCRIBE: send a plain text email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the message body, put just two words: UNSUBSCRIBE rbase-l ================================================ TO SEARCH ARCHIVES: http://www.mail-archive.com/rbase-l%40sonetmail.com/
