note 89694 deleted from function.is-numeric by danbrown

Note Submitter: claude dot pache at gmail dot com ---- About previous comments concerning numeral notations. The format of numeral is more complicated than just an "English" (or, worse, an "American") versus a "rest-of-the-world" notation. For information and for example, I just mention that the thousand separator is usually a (thin) space in France, an apostrophe in Switzerland, a dot in Germany....