Sorry, I didn't mean to argue that CSS should be involved, merely that the communication user to user-agent should be considered to use locle-dependent formats, and that the communication user-agent to server should be in a standard format.
On Jan 19, 2012, at 16:29 , Jukka K. Korpela wrote: > 2012-01-20 1:19, David Singer wrote: > >> What the user enters and sees on screen is a presentational/locale issue > > Which one? “Presentational” normally refers to things like layout design, > colors, fonts, and borders. Locales are something different. > > The difference between “1.005” meaning one thousand and five vs. one and five > thousandths is normally regarded as a locale difference, and nobody has > suggested that that it should be handled in CSS when it is about document > content. > > Why would things suddenly change when it comes to user interface? Besides, > there is nothing in CSS as currently defined that even tries to address such > issues. > > Yucca > David Singer Multimedia and Software Standards, Apple Inc.
