About 10 years ago I had to use those for a financial system integration. I was getting files that had been created on a mainframe, and whoever wrote it origin

About 10 years ago I had to use those for a financial system integration. I was getting files that had been created on a mainframe, and whoever wrote it originally had the foresight to use those characters. Probably because they were based out of EMEA and understood that commas weren’t useful across national borders.