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------- Additional comments from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tue Oct  7 10:27:11 +0000 
2008 -------
Researching this further, it seems that there is some disagreement amongst CSV 
supporting applications as to whether '\' can be used as an escape character. 
Certainly, the application generating the CSV files that first caused me to 
notice the problem considers the backslash as a legitimate escape character. 

Given that there was no official standard prior to RFC4180, and a number of 
alternative representations have already gained widespread adoption, should OO 
not provide some level of support for these alternative representations even if 
they're not strictly correct? Failing that, perhaps a more extensive entry in 
the help files describing the problem I encountered?

Incidentally, I'm fairly certain that Office 2007 (and possibly earlier 
versions) handles the backslash escape character 'correctly'. It may be worth 
making the OO CSV import more forgiving purely for the sake of greater 
compatibility - or at least perceived compatibility - with MS Office.


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