That is strange. Which ISO standard? Or is it just an EN standard?

I thought it was a Germany thing because I only see this behavour
from the colleagues in Germany. Even for them, the technical documentations
are mostly using "." and not ",". However they sometimes forget this
and use "," and cause quite some confusions. Another common
confusion is caused when they pronounce "I" ([ai]) as [i:].

Which part of the world follow this continental European convention?
At least I know that in Singapore and China, people are using "."
And it is the same in US and Japan. I guess India is also using ".",
so only the monority in the world is using ",".


Regards,
Xiaofan

On 10/12/05, Gerhard Fiedler <lists@connectionbrazil.com> wrote:
> 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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