Release 10.1A: OpenEdge Deployment:
Startup Command and Parameter Reference

European Numeric Format (-E)

Use European Numeric Format (-E) parameter to tell Progress to display thousands separators as periods and decimal points as commas (for example: 1.234.567,89) when displaying or prompting for numeric values.

Operating system and syntax	UNIX Windows	-E
Use with	Maximum value	Minimum value	Single-user default	Multi-user default
Client Session	–	–	AMERICAN	AMERICAN

AMERICAN is the default value, in which periods are displayed as decimal points and commas as thousands separators (for example: 1,234,567.89).

When you specify EUROPEAN, continue to use periods as decimal points and commas as thousands separators in your source files. Note there is no command line parameter to specify AMERICAN, or reset EUROPEAN.

Numeric format specifications in the Data Dictionary and the decimal constants in procedures always must use the period to represent the decimal point.

You can also use the to get or set the numeric format.