> >The "old currencies" on the continent (German Mark, Dutch guilder, French > >frank) however use a period to devide the groups and a comma as a decimal > >sign. > > Some use a full stop as the thousands separator and some use a > numeric (nonbreaking) space. Switzerland uses an apostrophe for the > thousands separator, I believe.
Yes, Switzerland uses an apostrophe. France does use a comma for the decimal separator, but uses a non-breaking, non expansible (constant size) space to group digits 3 by 3, and not a dot: 1 799 237,59 Check your Palm if you have one. Last time I looked, their number formats were okay. YA