Re: Multiplication Sign vs. Bullet Operator

[John Darrington]

Thanks Friedrich,

There may be cultural influences at play here.

I think in English speaking countries the  x is more common - at least in 
printed material - 
and it is used to what I am seeing, although I do write it with a dot when 
writing by hand.


The dot, has a problem, that in English speaking lands it can be confused with  
the decimal 
separator - that of course is not a problem in continental Europe where the 
comma is used as
the decimal separator.

What we could do, is to mark this string as translatable.  That way, the 
translators can use
x . or whatever they think appropriate.


J'


On Wed, Jun 17, 2015 at 10:21:44AM +0200, Friedrich Beckmann wrote:
     I changed this with commit
     
     
http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/pspp.git/commit/?h=gtk3&id=dc93fae2746573f1e71d93fbc297b48dc0c32b90
     
     to the use of the multiplication sign. This is then according to:
     
     
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Dates_and_numbers#Scientific_and_engineering_notation
     
     and looks like this:
     
     
     
     Thanks for the hint! I always wrote it with dot, but obviously the 
recommended way is
     the multiplication sign ?x?.
     
     Friedrich

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