Insert non-English decimal points in mysql

Question

How can you make mysql understand non-English decimal points in integer/float fields?

setLocale(LC_ALL, \'da_DK.ISO-8859-1\');

eg:

Answer 1

One of the reasons you can't do that is that the comma , is used for separating field-values in INSERT statements.

INSERT INTO a(b,c) VALUES (3,4,5) would be ambiguous.

Should it result into b=3.4 , c=5 or b=3 , c=4.5 ?