On Thursday 27 February 2003 23:31, John Keller wrote: > Frederic Crozat wrote: > > Besides, it'd be ironic for a French-driven disto to chnage the correct > > > behavior in the French locale only. ;) > > > > I would prefer to patch French maths to use '.' instead of ',' :)) > > So would I, but I'm biased. I wonder if it was a Napoleon thing, with the > Ecole des mines or something.
It is more a US thing. , is (or was) the standard decimal separator. The English, German and Dutch all have it
