RE: Decimal separator with more than one character?

From: Roozbeh Pournader ([email protected])
Date: Sat May 17 2003 - 02:26:16 EDT

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On Thu, 15 May 2003 [email protected] wrote:

> I know that at least in some Linux locales the Farsi locale

Well, the politically-correct way is to call the language "Persian".

> has a decimal separator that is more than one _byte_ since that is how
> it encodes in UTF-8.

Yes, many Arabic-writing locales share that character, U+066B, ARABIC
DECIMAL SEPARATOR.

roozbeh

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