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I think Germany does that as well. It was very confusing to inherit code that "accepted CSVs", but didn't accept files where the values were comma-separated.



Because we use the comma instead of the dot for decimal numbers. Since the advent of computers it's a bit less true, dots are used too but this is the historical reason.




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