On Mon, 30 May 2011 19:57:32 +0200, Jérôme M. Berger <[email protected]>
wrote:
Fun fact about Excel generated CSV files: quite apart from encoding
issues, the separator used between cells depends on the locale: for
example, in English locales it uses a coma but in French locales it
uses a semicolon...
Just thought I'd point it out in case you did not know.
Fun? Gods, it's the most horrible idea I've witnessed in computing.
If only they'd call it something other than CSV, at least - Comma Separated
Values separated by semicolons? WTF?
And the fantastic joy of opening one of those abominations in some other
program... *shiver*
--
Simen
