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[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

Not to mention that the Arabic world writes numbers with their own script:

۱٬۲۳٤٬٥٦۷٫۸۹

(Yes, that's the official thousands separator U+060C and the official decimal separator U+060B and they do look suspisciously similar.)