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[QUOTE="BartC, post: 5147113"]
I suppose my point is that a decimal point rather than comma is probably the
de facto standard for machine-readable fields in text, even with countries
that use the comma, unless the text is purely for internal use within the
region.

The business with the thousands separator is less important - that is only
for display, and not an essential part of the data like the decimal point.
It's unusual anyway to have to deal with thousands separators in input (I
only do that for source code, and then the separator is not a comma).

And really, when I output numbers with such separators, it is /only to make
long numbers more readable/; I care very little about local customs or
whether it is exactly right for the region! Anyone in their own region can
do the same. The unfortunate few who have to create software that does the
'right thing' in every single region, then they're welcome to all those
headaches. But I suspect there is a lot more to it than just setlocale() and
"%f".
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