Delimiter hell

You know, that each computer can have different regional settings. Moreover, some users change this settings to their preferences.
For example, if I like '.' as decimal separator, I can change it, if by default it is ','.

But, we are speaking here about Firebird and InterBase, right? Yes. There is a tool, GSTAT, used to get statistics from DB. It uses fixed decimal separator, '.'. So, if you run gstat -r employee.gdb, somewhere in the file there will be lines

COUNTRY (128)
    Primary pointer page: 407, Index root page: 408
    Average record length: 26.00, total records: 14, max record length: 31

You see "26.00" ? Right, here dot is used as delimiter, and it's being used forever, and system settings are ignored.
But, someone in Embarcadero, working on new InterBase version, decided to use system delimiter for Services API. So, if we will try to get statistics not by gstat, but by services API, we can get

    Average record length: 26.00, total records: 14, max record length: 31
or
    Average record length: 26,00, total records: 14, max record length: 31

I don't know why and when this happened. But I found this only few hours ago...