We know that $25.00$ in English is actually written as $25{,}00$ in French (and many other languages actually). Weird, but true!
Now, non-anglo users frequent our site and often write in such notation. While removing homework tags from old posts, I have swapped the ,
with a .
at least ten times, until now I realized I should ask about this on meta first to reach a consensus.
This is the latest occurrence of such a conversion. In such cases, should I:
- convert the comma to a decimal?
- leave the comma as it is?
I am actually in favor of the first way as SE in general has majority of its visitors from these countries (but I don't know of Chem.SE specifically?), so it makes sense to do it the way it is for the majority of the people. I would wish to hear other views though, as there are surely use-cases I might have missed.