On 2018-06-23 12:41:33 -0400, Richard Damon wrote: > On 6/23/18 11:44 AM, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > > You're assuming that there will be a misinterpretation. That's an absurd > > assumption to make. There might be, of course, but the documentation for > > my document might be clear that comma is to be used for decimal > > separators. Or it might include numbers like > > > > 1.234.567,012345678 > > > > which is understandable to anyone who is aware of the possibility that > > comma may mean decimal separator and period the thousands separator. > > > Then I shouldn't be using en-AU to decode the file.
Quite right, You shouldn't.
> Now, if I have a parser that doesn't use the locale, but some other rule
> base than I just need to provide it with the right rules, which is
> basically just defining the right locale.
Nope. The right rules for almost any file format are much more than the
locale.
hp
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