Re: LYNX-DEV Re: commas (eg 4,863,806) in download byte-cnts

[DR. JUAN-CARLOS LERMAN]

>  971015 David Combs wrote:                                                
>                                                                           
>  > When downloading large files, I find it very hard to tell the magnitude
>  > of the number of bytes displayed in that fast-spinning "odometer" Lynx 
>  > shows. Perhaps placing commas every three digits would make it a lot   
>  > easier to read. If anyone things this is a good (or bad) idea, please  
>  > say so to the list.                                                    
>                                                                           
>  971015 Klaus Weide wrote:                                                
>                                                                           
>  > Different languages/countries may use different characters for grouping
>  > in numbers.                                                            
>                                                                           
>  971016 Philip Webb wrote:                                                
>                                                                           
>  all too true, but there is an official SI -- Systeme International --    
>  style, which is to separate digits in 3's by SPACES, leaving commas for  
>  those of us -- incl me & many Europeans -- who prefer them to decimal    
>  points as easier to pick out & not susceptible to confusion with         
>  multiplication.                                                          
>                                                                           
>  would spaces serve the purpose above?                                    
>  anyway, please don't insert commas into integers.                        

971019 J.-C. Lerman says:

Follow the SI - no high priority

100 percent agreed with Philip Webb's basis for a change if and when it
happens. I don't consider it a high priority: in fact I got 'trained' 
by using DOS... and I still use my vintage DOS ver 3.31 even knowing 
that recently DOS has finally been implemented commas or 'country
dependent separators.' 

I think that the SI rules prescribe the grouping for strings of more
than 4 digits, probably to avoid funny looking dates, e.g., '1 997' 

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