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>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?




The one that Notepad has configured by default in your OS version, unless you choose a different encoding when saving the file.




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