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Re:Show HN: Comma Separated Values (CSV) to Unicode Separate... by knallfrosch on Tuesday March 12, 2024 @10:33AM (#39680026)
Completely unreadable. Then again, Germans know the pain of decimal points.

We write 3.000,00 for exactly three thousand, instead of 3,000.00

Now imagine how often parsing breaks.

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Re:Show HN: Comma Separated Values (CSV) to Unicode Separate... by Ekaros on Tuesday March 12, 2024 @11:08AM (#39680428)
Finland uses 3 000,00 which is also kinda pain to parse.

I think rarely used ' to group thousands is actually most sensible solution.

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Re:Show HN: Comma Separated Values (CSV) to Unicode Separate... by euroderf on Tuesday March 12, 2024 @02:31PM (#39683112)
And now and then you encounter a web form in the .fi domain that rejects "," and expects ".", but does not tell you that that is the reason for rejecting your input. The web "designers" that deploy such crap in .fi should be sent to Siberia.
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Re:Show HN: Comma Separated Values (CSV) to Unicode Separate... by alwyn on Tuesday March 12, 2024 @10:47AM (#39680179)
In my head 3.000,00 is correct and I always get confused because it seems most(?) people use the other method.
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