Because of the C++ locale APIs and libstdc++ being worthless trash,
we need to resort to this kind of nonsense in order to avoid
gibberish when dealing with grouping and decimal separators.
Libc++ gets this right (comes up with ASCII style representations
when requesting locale facets dealing with char type) but for some
dumb reason libstdc++ comes up with representations that are
garbage even when using a UTF-8 locale, so I guess we'll deal
with it this way for the time being...
That said, all of this code is probably broken on systems that
don't use Unicode and honestly I don't care.
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