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Interesting, because in the Microsoft Manual of Style (I'm looking at the
third edition at the moment, fourth may say something different) under the
heading for euros it says (in part):
"When expressing an amount in euros and cents in U.S. content, use a
decimal point as the
delimiter. Different localities may use a decimal point or a comma, as
appropriate.
Correct
E3.50"
Sometimes I think that Apple and Microsoft do things differently on
purpose, not because it necessarily makes any sense, but just to be
different from each other.
On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 4:19 PM, Milan DavidoviÄ <milan -dot- lists -at- gmail -dot- com>wrote:
> If anyone has a link/citation or other pointer handy for the rationale
> behind this, could you post it? Thanks.
>
> --Milan DavidoviÄ
>
> Sent from my Commercial Visible 6
>
>
> On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 3:15 PM, Haim Roman <haim -dot- roman -at- gmail -dot- com> wrote:
> > I.e., write "123 456" instead of "123,456".
> >
> > Anyone else use space in their docs?
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