On Tue, Oct 10, 2006 at 04:18:07PM -0700, Jochen Behrens wrote: > Don Cragun wrote: > >Shouldn't you also specify lowercase versions of these unit characters > >to produce lowercase characters in the output? > > That doesn't make sense to me. Except for the 'K' case, where it should > be the lower case to begin with, some of the lower case letters have > different meanings in the metric (SI) system: 'm' stands for "milli" (a > thousandth), 'p' stands stands for "pico" (a trillionth). > 'K' may be used to denote kilo in American usage, but that is not the > case in international use. However, back when I went to school in > Germany, I learned that 'K' is often used for kilo to denote 2^10. > That does bring up the question whether there should be a way to specify > the comma as the decimal marker, as it is used widely in languages other > than English.
Ienup brought up that question. This is definitely in the realm of L10N. So new items for nl_langinfo(3C) seem to be in order. Nico --
