Am 31.05.2011 13:12, schrieb Kagamin: > Daniel Gibson Wrote: > >>> according to N1425 >>> 7.11.1.1 >>> 4. At program startup, the equivalent of >>> setlocale(LC_ALL, "C"); >>> is executed. >>> >>> Fun fact is MS conforms with this specification. >> >> So they break it deliberately in Excel? Smart. > > Excel deliberately localizes data presented to the user. Wouldn't it be > strange for user to work with C locale (Excel users aren't programmers)? It > even translates builtin function names :)
I'm not talking about representing the values on the screen - I'm talking about the format of CSV files. And I find translated function names pretty strange.. I'm wondering how well that works when opening a file with another locale etc. > As this presentation is quite customizable, I doubt it's done by c runtime. I > think it just gets string values from cells during CSV generation.
