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Re:Google Will Eat Itself by TophWells on Wednesday March 19, 2014 @11:13AM (#7429134)
>Or you could include these regional conventions in the character encoding, so that each file knows how it represent its numbers, and enforce them consistently throughout applications.

So if I open a file in Notepad and type 400,123 (using the comma on my keyboard), what character encoding should that be done with?

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Re:Google Will Eat Itself by TuringTest on Wednesday March 26, 2014 @07:59AM (#7472789)
The one that Notepad has configured by default in your OS version, unless you choose a different encoding when saving the file.
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