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by raxxorraxor 795 days ago
> it's a shame that this isn't standardised

Let me tell you about the pain of CSV-files that use ; as a delimiter because otherwise you couldn't use decimal numbers.

Or in office documents where MS "translates" commas. That means you also need to replace all , and ; if you translate office scripts from English to a language with other decimal rules.

Nevermind the parsing of numbers in general... That stuff can crashes moon probes.