Another new feature of the standard iostreams is internationalization. Traditional iostreams were incapable of adjusting to local conventions. Output of numerical items was always done following the US English conventions for number formatting. The new iostreams are internationalized to allow for local conventions. They use the standard locales described in the section on locales.
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