From: Kent Karlsson (kent.karlsson14@comhem.se)
Date: Wed Sep 14 2005 - 05:03:24 CDT
Jukka "Yucca" Korpela wrote:
> I was somewhat surprised at seeing an _official_ practice of using a
I'm not surprised at all. ":" is what is customarily used for this, and
has
been for a long time. (In addition "00" as monetary decimal part is
usually
written as "-"; one or other kind of dash, en dash would probably be
best.)
> monetary decimal separator different from decimal separator described
and
> recommended in a rather new document: The Swedish recommendations to
> public administration, or "Myndigheternas skrivregler", issued in
November
> 2004, recommend the use of ":" as a decimal separator (though they
> mention, in parentheses, the use of "," as well). They can be found
via
Using "," for that is more of a fallback, since computer systems may
generate that output. But note section 9.5.3 on the same page.
> the intro page http://www.regeringen.se/sb/d/253/a/33329
> and rules are in clause 9.5 Penningbelopp, at
> http://www.regeringen.se/content/1/c6/03/33/29/b0cc0c31.pdf#page=65
/kent k
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