On Tue, 10 Oct 2006, Nicolas Williams wrote:
>> If we define the function to /strictly/ be SI, which all the world
>> recognises and uses so a reasonable constraint, then there'd no
>> localisation issues for prefix symbols.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> What about the decimal character?
I restricted the statement to 'prefix symbols' quite deliberately ;). (I
had read the other reply about the thousand-seperator and radix-char).
Note though that, if you want to be really strictly SI, then all those
issues disappear, because SI defines them. I.e. SI is its own locale
(quite deliberately): the thousand seperator is ' ', the decimal radix
is '.'.
To correct a previous email of mine: The 2**(10*n) prefixes are not SI,
but IEC (IEC 60027-2, 3rd edition), but SI encourages their use.
--paulj
