Re: [mmox] Compact Binary Serialization

Jon Watte <jwatte@gmail.com> Wed, 25 February 2009 19:03 UTC

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Dan Olivares wrote:
> might seem ok, however, consider what happens when someone in a locale
> with a different way of displaying the number tries to figure out what
> this means?
>
>   

That could be a non-problem. Define C locale, and you're done. And, btw, 
C locale does not use thousands grouping at all. Note that the schema is 
for machine data interchange (a user doesn't generally enter quats by 
hand :-).

Sincerely,

jw

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Re: [mmox] Compact Binary Serialization Dan Olivares
Re: [mmox] Compact Binary Serialization Jon Watte