Australian Standard Number Format FIXED

For anyone who remembers this post back in oct 2006
Desparate for Australian Standard Number Format
Posted: Oct 31, 2006
The Aussie standard has a space instead of a comma so that 10,500 (ten and a half metres/feet/notation) should show as 10 500 & Currency should show as $10,500.00
Unfortunately Apple in their infinite wisdom do not acknowledge that numbers and currency can be displayed differently and OSX system settings does not allow customization of the number part of the format as far as i can ascertain.
And I would like to say that not being satisfied with the answer on this issue i have continued to pester if you like the freindly engineers at tech support in Australia
(their friendly once they let you past basic support anyway) who have recognised that this is indeed an APPLE OSX PROBLEM & has nothing to do with the software manufacturer who uses the operating system preferences to populate the software (makes sence to me)
Well
It got fixed in Snow leopard
Thanks
Persistence
Change it under Preferences Language Format
Thankyou

Hi
I would like to say that not being satisfied with the answer on this issue i have contineud to pester if you like the freindly engineers at tech support in Australia
(their friendly once they let you past basic support anyway) who have recognised that this is indeed an APPLE OSX PROBLEM & has nothing to do with the software manufacturer who uses the operating system preferences to populate the software (makes sence to me)
Apple had this functionallity in 10.3 panther & if you upgrade from 10.3 to 10.8 the funcionallity remains. Only new installs are affected by the lack of being able to set numbers & decimals in the preferences. Apple released this terminal command to alter numeral separation
( defaults write -g AppleICUNumberSymbols -dict 0 ' ' 1 ' ' ) & allow a space between the thousands & hundreds,then open preferences international formats & see your new found Standard.
It is not without problems however as it also places a space between the thousands & hundreds in Currency
This is a fix/workaround that needs to be seriously investigated by apple engineering & placed back into Leopard Before the release as this is an Apple Disfunction of the Australian Standards number notation & as i was advised the space is also a US Standard Lack of this functionallity meens that Mac does NOT COMPLY TO THE AUSTRALIAN STANDARDS REQUIREMENT & THEREFORE POSSIBLY WOULD NOT BE CONSIDERED IN ANY GOVERNMENT INSTITUTION AS A SUPPLIER I hope someone from apple in the US reads this & does something about it. MORE INFO HERE http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20050926170928881
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