This is in a way a follow up question to "[Is mocking the Indian English used by a user abusive?](https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/379045/is-mocking-the-indian-english-used-by-a-user-abusive)", and made in light of [an answer and comments](https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/291362/advice-for-non-native-english-speakers/333819#333819) given in "[Advice for non-native English speakers](https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/291362/advice-for-non-native-english-speakers)".

[In the past](https://stackoverflow.com/posts/53755146/revisions) I have edited questions that use the term "lakh" to instead be explicitly written as a number, and the term "crore" to instead be written in millions. For those unaware:

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> 1 lakh = 105 = one hundred thousand
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> 1 crore = 107 = ten million
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So, I would make the following edits (as per the example linked):

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> 5 lakh => 500,000
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> 35 crore => 350 million
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As editors, should we be changing these local terms to be dialect-agnostic to assist with other users answering the question, add footnotes that explain the conversion, or allow them verbatim in order to preserve the intent and avoid errors in conversion/translation?

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*Yes, I am aware I used a dialect specific notation for thousands separators (',') which is a different character in many countries ('.'), and yes I'm aware of the irony of this*