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From: ralph@computing-maths.cardiff.ac.uk (Ralph Martin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: SANE and International Utilities
Message-ID: <873@cf-cm.UUCP>
Date: 30 Oct 89 13:26:59 GMT
Organization: University of Wales College of Cardiff, Cardiff, WALES, UK.
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The Apple Numerics Manual says that Str2Num for converting strings to numbers
looks for "." as the decimal point character, while the International utilities
as described in Inside Mac allow for characters other than "." to be used for
decimal point in coutries like Italy. So, does this mean that to be friendly to
foreigners, I should not use Str2Num, but I must write my own replacement for
it? And if so, why doesnt Str2Num take this into account!

Ralph