>Or you could include these regional conventions in the character encoding, so that each file knows how it represent its numbers, and enforce them consistently throughout applications.
So if I open a file in Notepad and type 400,123 (using the comma on my keyboard), what character encoding should that be done with?
So if I open a file in Notepad and type 400,123 (using the comma on my keyboard), what character encoding should that be done with?