What it looks like when Google links to your website

Re:What it looks like when Google links to your website by Amadou on Thursday July 04, 2013 @10:17AM (#5990713)

There is some other system that uses periods for thousands and commas for decimals - the exact reverse of what you've listed as the english convention. I always thought it was a european convention. It makes more sense than what you've listed as the metric convention.

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Re:What it looks like when Google links to your website by fastball on Thursday July 04, 2013 @12:00PM (#5991224)

Indeed, and that is what I've seen from many Europeans.

However, I think that must be a convention from before the universal adoption of the metric system by the EU, as the 22nd General Conference on Weights and Measures (held in 2003) declared that the symbol for decimals should be "the point on the line or the comma on the line".

i.e. the official metric system symbol is period or comma, regardless of what actual Europeans use.

http://www.bipm.org/utils/en/pdf/Resol22CGPM-EN.pdf [page 11]

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Re:What it looks like when Google links to your website by coldtea on Thursday July 04, 2013 @12:43PM (#5991415)

>i.e. the official metric system symbol is period or comma, regardless of what actual Europeans use.

Regardless? Those (and mainly comma) is exactly what Europeans use. It's not like there is some other symbol besides those too in use for that purpose.

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Re:What it looks like when Google links to your website by fastball on Thursday July 04, 2013 @10:11PM (#5993197)

Yes, there is another convention. (spaces)+(commas or periods) != (periods)+(commas)

What you are talking about is a European convention, not a metric convention. There is a difference.

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Re:What it looks like when Google links to your website by siddboots on Thursday July 04, 2013 @10:36AM (#5990794)

Esperanto and Interlingua both use that convention.

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