Re: [Gretl-users] Export data & Decimal point
On 6/10/2010 7:04 AM, Sven Schreiber wrote:
the question is: does gretl want to enforce a non-existent standard
because we (including me) like that behavior; or does gretl surrender to
the facts of the csv ecosystem and give users the option to produce
different variants of csv files.
Again, why is the question not rather:
where is the documentation of this file format?
It seems to me that gretl should
- point to or provide documentation
- read and write the documented format by default (in *all* locales)
- possibly but not necessarily allow user over-rides of the defaults
CSV should be a file format. That there are other similar
text formats that sometimes are given the .csv extension is
unfortunate but irrelevant.
Alan Isaac