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by IanCal 3188 days ago
> What about regions that treat the comma as a decimal separator?

A good reason not to change it from a period to a comma, not really relevant to whether to change it from a period to something else.

> I agree with the other commenter that this is no different than using periods in IPv4 addresses.

IP addresses have no useful concept of "before" or "after", whereas these do.