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From: Nicolas Goaziou <n.goaziou@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: comma as decimal point: bug?
Date: Sun, 26 Aug 2012 22:57:56 +0200
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Hello,

Rainer Thiel <r.thiel@uni-jena.de> writes:

> I have seen that as of v. 7.9, org tables are supposed to accept
> commas as decimal points which is useful if you set up tables to be
> used in in files where continental conventions are expected to be
> followed.

Actually, this more subtle. Tables recognize numbers with a comma as the
decimal mark. But it only means such numbers will be properly aligned to
the right. Internally, calculations still require dot separator.

Hope it is clearer now.


Regards,

-- 
Nicolas Goaziou