People often forget about the numeric locale with floating point as text. Long ago, we had European collaborations, e.g. with Anglophone at one end of the netw

People often forget about the numeric locale with floating point as text. Long ago, we had European collaborations, e.g. with Anglophone at one end of the network, Francophone or Danish at the other, sometimes "with hilarious consequences". I know %g etc. in C's printf isn't subject to that, but it was a real issue at the time.