Thanks Chris, now I understand that the localized version of "0.0" as text
will be "0,0" or any other depending of the localized version.
Carlos Ysunza B.
Director
Ysunza/Santiago
Visual Communication Automation
Tel. (52)55 5256-0336
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http://www.ysunzasantiago.comhttp://www.thesecretmexico.comhttp://www.softrobot.com.mx
> From: Christopher Nebel <email@hidden>
> Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2006 19:35:54 -0700
> To: AppleScript Users <email@hidden>
> Subject: Re: Currency Numbers
>
> On Jun 22, 2006, at 3:58 PM, Carlos Ysunza wrote:
>
>> I follow with interest all this solutions, and learn a lot, of all
>> of them, but I wonder why use ³(0.0 as text)'s character 2² and
>> not simply use the dot character as in my own version? Is there
>> any reason that I can¹t see?
>
> The decimal "point" isn't a period in all locales -- for instance, in
> France they use a comma. Because "0.0 as text" uses the localized
> number format to create the string, you get the localized decimal
> point. Whether or not you care depends on how widely you expect your
> script to be distributed.
>
>
> --Chris Nebel
> AppleScript Engineering
>
>
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