Re: Decimal key on European keyboard layouts

fredagen den 13 december 2002 11.13 skrev Dr Andrew C Aitchison:
>
> Looking at the unicode charts (especially the character name index
> 	http://www.unicode.org/charts/charindex.html
> ) I see that ASCII dot 0x2E has become Unicode 0x002E "Decimal Point"
> and ASCII comma 0x2C has become 0x002C "decimal separator".
> http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U0000.pdf
> renders these in the English way, not the continental one you desire.
>
> I suspect you are stuck with a standard which unifies the *meaning*
> of the key at the expense of the visual representation; maybe you are
> expect to use a different font on the continent ?

It is definitely not a font problem as the actual character code (in unicode and
other encodings) is different depending on the locale.

Quote:
	Note: any of the characters U+002C, U+002E, U+060C, U+066B, or U+066C (and possibly others) 
	can be used as numeric separator characters, depending on the locale and user customizations.

Hence, the Unicode name is irrelevant.

-- robin