Singapore and India are indeed former British colonies and are both
commonwealth countries now as well as Australia and New Zealand.
Indeed the former British Empire was so big and thus PIClist is using
English, not any other language. ;-)

Still I see the wiki page (by no means should be considered as
correct) of ISO_31-0 at the following URL.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_31-0
the wavelength is λ = 6.982 × 10−7 m

It is using dot and not a comma. Therefore I guess in the technical
field people are still using dot instead of comma.

Maybe ISO-31's next revision will use dot when China, India, USA and
Japan pay more attention to the standards. ;-)

The standard we deal with are mostly EN/ISO/IEC standards with
EN50178/EN60947 and IEC61000 being the most frequently referenced,
but lately I also need to reads UL508 and UL840 as well. And China's
CCC mark become the latest standard we need to apply for
AC powered device even though I still have no much ideas on how
to apply for the CCC mark.

The major problem is that different standard body (or different
standard expert) interpretes the standard differently. I think my
company employs quite some standard expert to deal with
certification and it tends to be quite expensive.


Regards,
Xiaofan

On 10/13/05, Gerhard Fiedler <lists@connectionbrazil.com> wrote:
>...
> I see one practical and one esthetic reason for the comma. The practical
> one is that the dot is just too easy to vanish (or appear) in bad faxes and
> copies; a comma is more substantial in print. The esthetic one is that I
> like the dot as the end of a sentence, and not in the middle of a sentence,
> as it appears when using numbers with decimal fractions (like currency
> values) in sentences.
>
> Gerhard
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