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   *Australians generally use the standard US keyboard, we have AU$, and do not use £ (pound currency), so the British keyboard is not normally used or preferred. (The British keyboard mapping is generally a pain in the arse for us, when it is somehow default mapped!) (The Australian dollar replace the Australian pound in 1966.)   *Australians generally use the standard US keyboard, we have AU$, and do not use £ (pound currency), so the British keyboard is not normally used or preferred. (The British keyboard mapping is generally a pain in the arse for us, when it is somehow default mapped!) (The Australian dollar replace the Australian pound in 1966.)
   *I recently was reminded that American's call the # symbol "pound", whereas we call it a "hash". A Logical exception is when referencing American standards, eg. ANSI B16.5 Class 150# flange.   *I recently was reminded that American's call the # symbol "pound", whereas we call it a "hash". A Logical exception is when referencing American standards, eg. ANSI B16.5 Class 150# flange.
-  *Australia (see AS1612, ISO216 and ISO217) uses the ISO A paper sizes, mostly A4(210x297mm) and A3(297x420mm). We like most of the rest of the world, outside the North America, use ISO A sizes. The American(US) software that tends to hard default to LETTER size is a pain in the arse. (Microsoft). Sadly many neophytes (idiots) in Australia do not know (or care) about this issue and use the default American software setting, so documents are often in LETTER size or perhaps worse, a Amish-mash or LETTER and A4! Modern printers often auto scale between A4 and LETTER size, shrinking the page contents about 8%.+  *Australia (see AS1612, ISO216 and ISO217) uses the ISO A paper sizes, mostly A4(210x297mm) and A3(297x420mm). We like most of the rest of the world, outside the North America, use ISO A sizes. The American(US) software that tends to hard default to LETTER size is a pain in the arse. (Microsoft). Sadly many neophytes (idiots) in Australia do not know (or care) about this issue and use the default American software setting, so documents are often in LETTER size or perhaps worse, a Amish-mash of LETTER and A4! Modern printers often auto scale between A4 and LETTER size, shrinking the page contents about 8%.
   *Australia follows the general English speaking convention for use of Decimal marks in numbers, that is, decimal points not decimal commas.   *Australia follows the general English speaking convention for use of Decimal marks in numbers, that is, decimal points not decimal commas.
   *Date and time formats. Australia tends to culturally follow the British (and Europeans) in this, day/month/year and hours:minutes:seconds(AM/PM). The Australian Standard AS ISO 8601, "Data elements and interchange formats - Information interchange - Representation of dates and times" and is identical to ISO 8601:2004. (The ISO 8601 date format is the most logical and follows the standard number format of most to least significant. The pervasive US date format using Month/Day/Year, is the least logical, mixing number significance!) (I prefer the ISO version of date and time YY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS.)   *Date and time formats. Australia tends to culturally follow the British (and Europeans) in this, day/month/year and hours:minutes:seconds(AM/PM). The Australian Standard AS ISO 8601, "Data elements and interchange formats - Information interchange - Representation of dates and times" and is identical to ISO 8601:2004. (The ISO 8601 date format is the most logical and follows the standard number format of most to least significant. The pervasive US date format using Month/Day/Year, is the least logical, mixing number significance!) (I prefer the ISO version of date and time YY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS.)