2012/7/23 Jürgen Schmidt <[email protected]>: > On 7/23/12 10:38 AM, Joost Andrae wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Am 23.07.2012 09:00, schrieb Zhe Liu: >>> Hi, >>> I use Calc to open a csv. "Text Import" dialog pops up. Semicolon & >>> Space are checked by default as separators. Most of csv files in the >>> world use comma as separator, right? I prefer comma. >>> In addition, when I use AOO to save a csv, I found the default >>> separator is comma. When I reopen the csv, I have to change separator >>> to comma. IMHO, it's a bad experience. >>> >> >> defined in https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4180 the default separator >> should be a comma. I'm not sure why AOO does it differently but there >> must be a reason to do it like this. Maybe Eike Rathke knows more about >> the reason. (CCed him) >> > > would be interesting to know if there is a reason for this otherwise it > doesn't sounds logic. Why 2 different defaults for import and export? > > But the current behaviour is that the dialog save the settings. Means > created csv file with ',' separator -> close document -> open file, load > defaults ';' + ' ' -> change to ',' -> close document, quit office -> > start office, load file, the dialog has ',' as default. > > Looks principally ok and flexible but having the same default at the > beginning would make probably even more sense.
You said what I exactly want to say. At least, the default values should be consistent. > > Juergen > > > -- Best Regards >From [email protected]
