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On Sat, Jul 26, 2014 at 02:23:48PM -0400, Rich Felker wrote:
> > but using anything other than '.' as the decimal point is broken
> 
> Agreed. BTW if you support arbitrary radix characters, you should not
> restrict it to ASCII; this then means the length in bytes of floating

I think there is some international recommendations which actually
say "either '.' or ',' but not anything else".

Rune