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::: ... And sometimes we relax our high and mighty principles and take the much easier route... (no offence meant) --12:53, 15 June 2019 (UTC)
:::: Reminds me of a issue we had at work... a program prompted the user whether to continue after a configurable number of records (default 5000) trouble was, in Italy it prompted the user every 5 records... serves us right for storing the number with commas and parsing it with a locale-aware routine (5,000 is of course 5.000 in Italy). Just saying... [[User:Tigerofdarkness|Tigerofdarkness]] ([[User talk:Tigerofdarkness|talk]]) 13:39, 15 June 2019 (UTC)
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