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Subject: Re: [office-formula] Semantics
Hi David, On Sun, Mar 05, 2006 at 14:05:53 -0500, David A. Wheeler wrote: > Yet another alternative is to try to accept both "," and "." as > decimal points. That risks ambiguity unless you FORBID > thousands separators, and I don't think anyone DOES it > (suggesting it's not actually that useful). I don't actually think > that'd be a good idea, but it's worth mentioning for completeness. Ok, you mentioned it, now let's forget it ;-) > > > How do you make that locale independent? > > > We will have similar problems with dates. > > Not necessarily; you can declare than YYYY-MM-DD is always > ISO 8601 format. You're quoting without context. That was a user's formula, something like =a1&"."&a2, where declaring some YMD order being ISO doesn't help anything. > For those who use other calendars, a standard prefix can > be used; I believe that's also common for those who use other > calendars. Having the "unprefixed" calendar be an ISO standard > should be easy to justify. Sorry, but what are you talking about? Standard prefix where? In what context? Eike
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