[XeTeX] XeTeX, "Options for all fonts", and the decimal comma

[mskala at ansuz.sooke.bc.ca]

On Tue, 25 Sep 2012, Philip TAYLOR wrote:
> Thank you, Jonathan.  I should have realised that allowing comma
> as a separator would prevent its use as a decimal separator.  Ah
> well, there goes my resolve to be a Good European [tm].

I think TeX in general always uses "." as the decimal separator, so for
XeTeX to accept "," would be a drastic innovation and would break
scripts written for other engines.
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Matthew Skala
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