From: Richard Wordingham (richard.wordingham@ntlworld.com)
Date: Tue Sep 13 2005 - 17:15:55 CDT
Elliotte Harold wrote:
>I noticed that Java 1.2 and later distinguish the decimal separator from
>the monetary decimal separator. That is, DecimalFormatSymbols has both
>getDecimalSeparator() and getMonetaryDecimalSeparator() methods. Does
>anyone happen to know of a locale where these two values are different? I
>wrote a little program to search for cases, but none of the locales
>installed in my Java 5 VM ever seem to think these two characters are
>different.
When the British currency went decimal in 1971, the official guidance was
that the handwritten separator between pounds and pence should be a dash and
not a decimal point - let alone a full stop. The monetary duodecimal
separator was a slash, and I have a very vague recollection of having also
seen it as the monetary vicesimal separator, though it was more usual to use
LSD, e.g. '£3 12s. 6d.'.
Richard.
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