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		userbinator on Aug 17, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Parsing JSON Is a Minefield (2018) I remember Excel also has(had?) some very disturbing behaviour around the interaction of CSV files and the regional decimal point separator settings.

kozziollek on Aug 17, 2019 [–]

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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