From a previous entry:
… the T|E’s Calculator app has an odd bug: the decimal point is displayed as a comma and vice versa e.g. type in “1500” and it’s displayed as “1.500”.
Bug, my ass. I had apparently selected “1.000,00” instead of “1,000.00” in the Formats section of the device preferences and this resulted in that calculator oddity.
But why did palmOne include “1.000,00” as a viable format in the first place? Is it used anywhere?
I think some European countries use this format – I know that France often uses what I would have thought of as decimal points to separate the number, so one million would be: 1.000.000 … or as far I can remember, I’m not sure about them using commas for the points though… strange!
Apparently, that strange format is a German one. Marty Nemzow writes: