- From: Liam R E Quin <liam@w3.org>
- Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2013 11:04:14 -0400
- To: "Siegman, Tzviya - Hoboken" <tsiegman@wiley.com>
- Cc: Bill Kasdorf <bkasdorf@apexcovantage.com>, Bert Bos <bert@w3.org>, Ivan Herman <ivan@w3.org>, W3C Digital Publishing IG <public-digipub-ig@w3.org>, Dave Cramer <Dave.Cramer@hbgusa.com>, Pierre Danet <pdanet@hachette-livre.fr>, Thierry Michel <tmichel@w3.org>
On Sat, 2013-10-26 at 23:30 -0400, Siegman, Tzviya - Hoboken wrote: > There is a similar issue in accounting and finance books. American > books say $100,000. In the books from the UK that I've seen, there is > a thin space after $. Thin spaces are also often used in place is the > commas in large numbers outside the US. And in Europe . is used instead of comma, and , for a decimal, so, US: $120,000.56 UK: £120 000·56 (sometimes with a raised dot as here, sometimes .) FR: ¤120.000,56 However, this is handled in programming systems with a "locale" mechanism, and in XSLT (and XSL-FO 2) with format-number. When CSS can show a running total for the page at the bottom of each page of a multi-page table it too will need this capability. Liam -- Liam Quin - XML Activity Lead, W3C, http://www.w3.org/People/Quin/ Pictures from old books: http://fromoldbooks.org/ Ankh: irc.sorcery.net irc.gnome.org freenode/#xml
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