>> I strongly discourage using any locale other than the C locale
>> in your source code.
>
> I would never do such a thing. Heaven forfend! The question was
> prompted by a mom user off list wondering about groff input files,
> not macro programming.
I suggest that numbers are input with `.` to make it uniform. Output,
however, might (and probably should) be adjusted if the users asks for
it. In Germany or Austria, for example, all 'official' sites (banks,
government, etc.) expect
1.234.567,89 €
or
1234567,89 €
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