Polychronis

Why must you change the delimit character just because your currency symbol
has commas in it?  In the states we have commas in our currencies and I
don't need to do that. What am I missing?

David Blocker

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From: "ELOEN" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Rbase List Server" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, November 06, 2002 6:16 AM
Subject: Currency convention (A) should be independent of delimiter char (,)


> As a greek user, I should have been using currency convention A for
> currency: Thousands delimiter: (.)-period, decimal delimiter: (,)-comma.
>
> I've constantly refrained from this choice for two reasons:
>
> 1. I had to use another char delimit, for example: (!)
> Imagine writing programs with (!) instead of (,). You are just alone. If a
> problem occurs that has to do with delimit char, who is going to think
about
> it? One Greek and a few Germans...
> 2. ODBC and Ottero. If I'm right they need standard delimit char to work
ok.
> You can always change delimit char temporarily, but in a multi user
> environment this could lead to a mess.
>
> So, if I'm right currency convention should be independent of delimiter
> char. Don't ask me how...
>
> Polychronis T. Kontos
> Athens, Greece
>
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