Nueric pad keys

[Steven Dilley]

Re: Nueric pad keys

"Evertjan." <exjxw.hannivoo rt@interxnl.net > wrote in message
news:Xns93D475D A2B4D8eejj99@19 4.109.133.29...[color=blue]
> Davide R. wrote on 11 aug 2003 in comp.lang.javas cript:[color=green][color=darkred]
> >> So the "Period key" on the numeric pad is
> >> between the "0" and the "enter" on a US keyboard.[/color]
> >
> > Yes, also on an italian keyboard.
> > But in Italy the "decimal point symbol" is not a point (".") but a
> > comma (",").[/color]
>
> Then it is not a "decimal point" but a "decimal comma" ;-)
>[/color]

What is on the key? Does the keycap have a '.' or a ','?
Wouldn't a key with a point/period/dot which actually functions
as a comma would be confusing? If there is a comma on the key,
can't the keyboard (that is the kbd driver) be configured to send
a comma? Can't this be solved through the 'Locales' or 'Regional
Settings'?

Apologies for asking these questions, but living in the same country
as microsoft has some advantages: I haven't had to struggle through
any of this. I am just curious why a problem that is so widespread,
and that has been around for so long, hasn't been solved already.

-- Steve

[Evertjan.]

Re: Nueric pad keys

Steven Dilley wrote on 11 aug 2003 in comp.lang.javas cript:[color=blue]
> Apologies for asking these questions, but living in the same country
> as microsoft has some advantages: I haven't had to struggle through
> any of this. I am just curious why a problem that is so widespread,
> and that has been around for so long, hasn't been solved already.[/color]

We pity you there in the States, struggling with outdated idea's of square
inches that have to be converted to square feet or square miles, of filling
your car with quarters that are not even the same as those in England,
coding your dates month-day-year and not in a logical dmy or ymd form, like
we do [never missing our first date], and of trying to convince us [the
world] that 12 am and 12 pm are logically and not confusingly what they
should be [we stil don't know]. NASA even proved these unit conversion
mistakes by [thankfully?] crashing a spaceprobe on Mars.

Be assured, the grey decimal point key is a minor nusance.

Anyway it is very refreshing that you care, thank you very much Steven.

;-} ;-} ;-} ;-} ;-} ;-} ;-} ;-} ;-} ;-} ;-} ;-} ;-} ;-} ;-} ;-}

PS: forgot to include Farenheit conversion to Kelvin and back. Farenheit
was an Amsterdammer, Lord Kelvin quite British.

--
Evertjan.
The Netherlands.
(Please change the x'es to dots in my emailaddress)

[Dr John Stockton]

Numeric pad keys

JRS: In article <3f37bc58@10.10 .0.241>, seen in
news:comp.lang. javascript, Steven Dilley <steven.dilley. at.compuware.co m
@?.?> posted at Mon, 11 Aug 2003 10:58:30 :-[color=blue]
>"Davide R." <aaa@bb.com> wrote in message
>news:bh7h0h$f2 b$1@newsreader. mailgate.org...[color=green][color=darkred]
>> >[/color]
>> So, if in the USA people wrotes 1,000.50 (one thousand and 50 pennies), in
>> Italy we usually wrote 1.000,50.[/color]
>
>Actually, USA: 1,000.50 (one thousand and 50 pennies)
>Italy: 1.000.000,50 (one million lira and a half)[/color]

It's always instructive to see how /au fait/ some people are with
economic developments overseas. The Italian Lire was abandoned a year
and a half ago, at a conversion rate of 1936.27 lira.

To avoid ambiguity, the dot and comma should be referred to as the
decimal and thousands separators, in whichever order is applicable.

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