See, that's kinda my question. As a programmer I refuse to use anything except yyyy-mm-dd, unless I'm forced to.
So do Europeans analogously refuse to use anything except decimal points, except where they have to?
So do Europeans analogously refuse to use anything except decimal points, except where they have to?
Displaying English-formatted numbers is incorrect in the rest of Europe, and will confuse users. Programming languages handle this, but you still write pi = 3.14 in the code.
Note 123.456,78 is German, but Swiss is 123'456,78. I think.
(Displaying miles and yards, inches and 'letter' sized paper is also incorrect, but it's unfortunately not uncommon.)