Definition of decimal separator

[tferr]

@bengtl, We had recently a report of an SWC file saved in a locale that uses the comma as a decimal separator. The file failed to import but was otherwise valid. It would be useful to have an official stance on this:

1. Are commas allowed as a decimal separator?
2. Are commas allowed as a thousand separator?

Although most of the world used commas as a decimal separator, this was the first time we came across this issue, so I would argue that their adoption is rare. I would advise to never use them in SWC files. Supporting them would just increase the complexity of parsers.

While at it, what about new line encoding? I am assuming \n is the standard!? This is of lower importance since most text editors support both \r\n and \n, but it may be useful to also discuss this.

[bengtl]

Thank you Tiago for your input. We agree that commas as decimal or thousand separators should never be allowed. We will add this to the standard.

When it comes to line separator, we will leave that open for the time being, but informally, we encourage using only \n.