> -----Original Message----- > From: sqlite-users [mailto:sqlite-users-boun...@mailinglists.sqlite.org] On > Behalf > Of Simon Slavin > Sent: Friday, February 10, 2017 2:36 PM > To: SQLite mailing list > Subject: Re: [sqlite] thousand separator for printing large numbers > > > On 10 Feb 2017, at 1:25pm, Arjen Markus <arjen.mar...@deltares.nl> wrote: > > > Not entirely, in German-spoken countries the apostrophe (') is often used > > as a > thousands-separator. > > That's Switzerland, right ? Not a member of the EU. I didn't know it > covered other > countries too. Thanks. > > To make it worse still, the ISO standard says we should all be using a > non-breaking > space, regardless of country. > I have seen it in presentations by German speakers (the nationality, not the language), mostly as an unnoticed mistake or perhaps an automatic correction by "helpful" presentation software. (Another fun exercise: collect the various date formats in use in various countries)
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