>>>>US does use commas (separator) and a period (decimal point). At least 1 country (can't remember which) uses a comma for the decimal point.
>>>
>>>I'd be interested in hearing from some of our European members whether they can format a report or form variable/field/textbox with one setup and have it show correctly on another computer where the decimals are set to a different pattern.
>>>
>>>Anyone?
>>>
>>>Barbara
>>
>>Here is how I do. I have a specialized environment class for reports that handles these things. Specifically it does the following adjustments:
>>SET DELETED ON
>>SET TALK OFF
>>SET SAFETY ON
>>SET POINT TO ","
>>SET SEPARATOR TO "."
>>SET DATE FRENCH
>>SET CURRENCY TO "F"
>>SET CURRENCY RIGHT
>>SET CENTURY ON
>>
>>I also use a report specific Data Environment.
>>
>>José
>
>This will work beautifully if all your users are French. I was wondering if there is any way to pull this information from the user's Windows setup information?
>
>Barbara

In the very first days of INTL, Steven Black had a function that retrieved the information located under the [INTL] heading in WIN.INI. It's still there in my WIN95 machine. But we should be better reading the registry, I suppose, and this is the sort of question I'd make to George Tasker.

I'm pretty sure Steven has studied this problem in depth also.

José