2013/4/20 John Darrington <j...@darrington.wattle.id.au>

> On Sat, Apr 20, 2013 at 03:43:39PM +0200, Harry Thijssen wrote:
>      >
>      >      1. File, Import Data, then choose Comma Separated Values as
> the file
>      > type. I
>      >      don't know what file mask that applies, but it excludes *.csv.
>      >
>      > Harry, does the windows installer set the appropriate Registry
> entry for
>      > .csv files?
>      >
>      >
>      No, I have only registry entries for .por .sav en .sps files. On
> MSWindows
>      this is usually done by the file extension.  So what should I
> register?
>
> In the file importer filter we currently have the following mime types.
>
> "text/plain"
> "text/csv"
> "text/tab-separated-values"
>  ( I've never encountered   this last one, but it's listed here:
>      http://www.iana.org/assignments/media-types/text/tab-separated-values)
>
> In the not too distant future, I'm hoping to extend this gui to also import
> the following mime types, so you might want to deal with these too:
>
> "application/x-gnumeric"
> "application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.spreadsheet"
>
>      When registering something with the .csv files, I may get problems
> with
>      office packages also registering *.csv files.
>
> Why?  This would only be a problem if those packages associate the
> extension ".csv"
> with something other than "text/csv"
>
>      On my MSWindows test environment, only .txt files are correct
> filtered in
>      the import box.
>
>
>      Have fun
>
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