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From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid>
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Subject: Re: "A diagram of C23 basic types"
Date: Fri, 4 Apr 2025 02:55:57 -0000 (UTC)
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On Wed, 02 Apr 2025 23:12:40 -0700, Keith Thompson wrote:

> Apparently some countries, such as Switzerland, use the apostrophe as a
> digit separator.

In school I was taught to use a space as the international-standard 
thousands separator, and a centred dot for the decimal point. This was to 
get around regional differences over which is comma and which is a dot 
etc.

Using “_” as an alternative to the space would have been consistent with 
its usage elsewhere, for word breaking in names etc.