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Re:Parsing JSON Is a Minefield (2018) by userbinator on Saturday August 17, 2019 @04:49PM (#20726269)
I remember Excel also has(had?) some very disturbing behaviour around the interaction of CSV files and the regional decimal point separator settings.
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Re:Parsing JSON Is a Minefield (2018) by kozziollek on Saturday August 17, 2019 @05:28PM (#20726534)
Not sure about CSV files, but every time I'm pasting numbers generated by Python or Java I had to use Notepad or Excel itself to replace dots to commas because of (Windows'!) regional settings.
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