[fpc-pascal] Spreadsheet library/unit?
Marco van de Voort
marcov at stack.nl
Mon Oct 6 18:16:47 CEST 2008
In our previous episode, Frank Peelo said:
> > An additional issue with delimiters in this case is the fact, that "C" in
> > "CSV" may not always be a comma (or that spreadsheet applications may
> > expect different characters depending on locale - e.g. semicolons, etc.).
>
> CSV is occasionally referred to as something other than "Comma Separated
> Values". I'm not sure why.
Because the comma is a bad separator for countries where the comma is the
decimal separator, like most of mainland Europe.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimal_separator#Countries_using_Arabic_numerals_with_decimal_comma
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimal_separator#Countries_using_Arabic_numerals_with_decimal_point
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