Mike Ayers wrote: > I discovered this weekend that Chinese, despite grouping large > numbers by ten thousands [...], write their digits with comma > separators every 3 digits [...] This may be different in different operating systems, but I too was convinced that they grouped four digits at a time. > I am aware that there are European languages (swiss and > italian?) that group four digits, and am reasonably sure > that japanese does. Check the date of your information: was it written on April 1st!? I am 101% sure that this is not true for Italy, and 99% sure that it not true even for Switzerland (so, on average, I'm 100% sure that it was an April fool:-) English, Italian, French and German share the same syntax for numbers >= 100 (i.e. we all use the units hundreds, thousands, millions, billions, etc.), so that would be absurd. > Before I go on a wild web search, does anyone know if > there already > exists a collection of information on the numbering systems of various > languages, including the natural language ordering of the > numbers, the digit > grouping size, and the digit group separator character? > Since this is for > informational purposes, I don't need code, just examples. IBM has a web pages to show the contents of their locale information; have you checked that? _ Marco
