Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!uunet!snorkelwacker!ai-lab!rice-chex!bson
From: bson@rice-chex.ai.mit.edu (Jan Brittenson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.handhelds
Subject: Re: Trouble with the FM set to ',' on HP48SX
Message-ID: <11353@life.ai.mit.edu>
Date: 14 Oct 90 04:00:17 GMT
References: <1358@dksoft.incom.de> <1990Oct6.074820.18403@santra.uucp>
Sender: news@ai.mit.edu
Organization: nil
Lines: 32

In article <1990Oct6.074820.18403@santra.uucp> 
   jmunkki@hila.hut.fi (Juri Munkki) writes:

 >>In article <1358@dksoft.incom.de> 
      dirk@dksoft.incom.de (Dirk Koeppen) writes:

 >> I've some trouble when I set the decimal dot to ',' using the MODES
 >> menu FM, function. ...a dot in a string.... is always replaced by a
 >> comma

   I have a similar problem. It's with digit groupings. In 2 FIX mode,
the number 1250,00 (with FM, enabled) is displayed as "1.250,00". But
add a unit and the grouping is no longer displayed, e.g.

	1250_USD

will be displayed as 

	1250,00_USD

not

	1.250,00_USD

   To me this is most distressing, since it's when dealing with
currencies that I find the grouping to be most useful. (If anyone is
wondering how to set up a unit system for currencies, the escape is
simple: simply define 'USD=1_m' and then define the rest of your
currencies in terms of USD.)

   As to how to type in semicolons, consult page 158 in the Owner's
Manual, Vol I. The information there applies to alpha mode as well.