Jinx wrote:

>> is this 'comma for decimal point' all over Europe
> 
> Comma for decimal point seems to be only a continental European thing. 

Not quite... it's also the ISO standard for drawings -- of course only for
who cares about international standards :) 

There's also an "SI style" that replaces the thousand separator with a
space (for users of both decimal comma and decimal point) and thus makes
ambiguities less probable, no matter whether a decimal comma or decimal
point is used.

While pretty much all of continental Europe uses the decimal comma, there
are many countries outside Europe that do so, too. Of course every country
that has been occupied at one point or other by the British or had strong
ties to British or US-American cultures in the early stages of industrial
development has a high probability to have adopted the decimal point.

See also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimal_separator

Gerhard
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