Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!jmlang From: jmlang@water.UUCP Newsgroups: can.general,can.francais Subject: Virgule de'cimale ou point de'cimal (in ENGLISH) Message-ID: <1039@water.UUCP> Date: Thu, 16-Jul-87 11:40:41 EDT Article-I.D.: water.1039 Posted: Thu Jul 16 11:40:41 1987 Date-Received: Sat, 18-Jul-87 05:09:43 EDT References: <225@Mannix.iros1.UUCP> <1931@lsuc.UUCP> Reply-To: jmlang@water.waterloo.edu (Jerome M Lang) Followup-To: can.francais Distribution: can Organization: U. of Waterloo, Ontario Lines: 21 Xref: utgpu can.general:659 can.francais:11 In article <1931@lsuc.UUCP> wales@CS.UCLA.EDU (Rich Wales) writes: > >No. The period is, officially, still the proper decimal point in >English-language documents in Canada. > Which raises the question: what about French-language documents? I am quite sure that the comma is the proper decimal "point" but that is a new thing: done at the reintroduction of the metric system. (Incidental: I think I remember seeing that metric has been legal in Canada since late 1800. Can somebody check?) Also, something new in French Canada (a few years old < 5 ): The dollar sign follows the amount as does most the currency symbol in the world. So instead of $18,000,000.50 we now see 18 000 000,50 $ in the newspapers. Note the cross-posting and follow-ups to can.francais -- Je'ro^me M. Lang || jmlang@water.bitnet jmlang@water.uucp Dept of Applied Math || jmlang%water@waterloo.csnet U of Waterloo || jmlang%water%waterloo.csnet@csnet-relay.arpa