Re: HP 15c LE - U.S. versus European version Message #9 Posted by Thomas Radtke on 9 Sept 2011, 11:30 a.m., in response to message #8 by Michael Kussmaul
For many years, this localization caused a lot of grief. You couldn't enter numbers comfortably on the numeric pad, as several programs (AutoCAD, Java programs, Statistica and so on) simply didn't accept the comma. Plain horror. Even worser was that Excel didn't store formulas as meta data, so exchanging them was at least problematic (e.g., arguments were seperated by a semicolon instead of a comma).
A few things have changed, but it's not over yet. Europeans are still paying the price for giving away all chances from their invention of the computer.
BTW, anyone knows how to comfortably swap the decimal point (and only it) on Win7? ;^)
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