Don wrote:
there's no simple solution. (<gripe> They could at least recognize that
outside the US, everyone uses A4-size paper, not that bizarro
letter/legal stuff </gripe>).
Amen!
It is usual that the user needs to write, say, in Swedish or in
Russian, while in a Finnish setting. Or that one wants to use a
decimal separator other than what is "proper" for the country.
For example, a lot of people use "." instead of the official "," in
Finland, and many use time as "18:23" instead of "18.23".
This is my experience as well. There's an awful lot of expats in the world.
Not just expats.
For example: I was born & raised in the Netherlands, but even though
officially we use a decimal comma here, I almost always use a decimal
point instead. This may have been caused by use of the US keyboard
layout (and its numeric keypad in particular), but I now even catch
myself using it when writing with a pen...
I nearly always end up setting the locale to "Antarctica", it turns off
most the locale logic <g>. There's so many programs that try to be too
clever.
lol :)
