"Consider: if you want {to let} someone else {drive around in} your car {and rent it out to other people} ... you have to pay them."

Excuse me?

I was just referring to storage, like in a parking garage or something. Sorry if my run-on sentence made it a little obtuse :-)

This just shows the beauty of the Unix way of doing things. Simply:

12 10 4

works in all locales. :-)

Until you can display negative numbers¹. Or have native numerals². Or need to know what the numbers even mean. :-)

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¹ I tend to set my minus sign to U+2212 to catch errors in code where we just use ToString() instead of ToString(CultureInfo.InvariantCulture). Almost as much fun as putting a Unicode character into your user name that isn't representable in the current legacy codepage on Windows.

² ۱۲ ۱۰ ۴ probably won't work as input to the application trying to parse that line ;)

How do you change your negative sign on a unixoid? The only reference to negative signs in locale(5) is under LC_MONETARY.

So those pitiful statistics on Vista usage were -- inflated?