On: Friends don't let friends export to CSV

[Gabriel54]

If I'm not mistaken this is pretty universal outside of the US (and maybe the UK).

[sfRattan → Gabriel54]

Going by the Wikipedia article and included map, use of comma versus period as decimal separators is roughly an even split:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimal_separator

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:DecimalSeparator.svg

[Larrikin → sfRattan]

Seems geographically split, but I wonder what is the actual population split is. Most of the top 10 population countries use the decimal separator. Only Brazil, Russia and Indonesia don't.

Maybe someone with a CSV of the world populations and a CSV of the countries broken down by their separator can do that comparison.

[fshr → sfRattan]

There's definitely a big distribution disparity. 11 of the 15 most populous countries use the period for decimals.

[micheljansen → fshr]

Most of Europe is in the fat long tail though, as those countries are counted individually.

[zztop44 → Gabriel54]

You are mistaken. Probably more countries overall use a decimal comma, but the decimal point is used as convention in many countries, including China, India, Nigeria and the Philippines.