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From
11/09/2014 04:40:35
Dragan Nedeljkovich (Online)
Now officially retired
Zrenjanin, Serbia
 
 
To
10/09/2014 09:34:51
Lutz Scheffler
Lutz Scheffler Software Ingenieurbüro
Dresden, Germany
General information
Forum:
Visual FoxPro
Category:
Coding, syntax & commands
Environment versions
Visual FoxPro:
VFP 9 SP2
OS:
Windows 7
Network:
Windows NT
Database:
Visual FoxPro
Application:
Desktop
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
01607194
Message ID:
01607353
Views:
70
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>>I guess it's nnn.nnn,nn? That's the european format, with decimal comma.
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>nnn nnn[,nn]. Space instead of point so nnn nnn could not be misread as an american format
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>>Amazingly, though, even in this four bananas republic (look at the coat of arms of Serbia), where the official language is gradually replaced with engrbian (and how's germisch, by the way? :),
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>Its called Denglish. Remember, in german the important part comes at the end. :)

Um, I found an earlier version, back in 1988, when one author (whoever wrote the manual for whichever brand of Basic came with Atari 1024 STfM) said "wenn ein Programm gelinkt ist" and then explained what "gelinkt" means in germisch.

>every single fiscal receipt I got has the european number format. Official statistics on the state's website, also compliant. But I've seen elsewhere that various media employ local hackers ..., the hackers are mostly illiterate. They don't even know the number format (sometimes not even the date) of their own country.
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>Don't ask what they do to german grammar ...

Same thing they do with any other language? That's too bad.

back to same old

the first online autobiography, unfinished by design
What, me reckless? I'm full of recks!
Balkans, eh? Count them.
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