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Conversion is the tireless errand of software development. Most programming tasks boil down to some variation of transforming data into something more useful.In the case of user-facing software, converting data into human-readable form is an essential task, and a complex one at that. A user’s preferred language, locale, calendar, or currency can all factor into how information should be displayed, as can other constraints, such as a label’s dimensions.All of this is to say that sending -descr…