Re: [Gretl-users] Follow up: Further side-effects of compact bug

On Thu, 29 Jan 2015, Wingenroth, Thorsten wrote: No, this has nothing to do with compaction, it relates to what I noted in http://lists.wfu.edu/pipermail/gretl-users/2015-January/010609.html and Hélio fixed in http://lists.wfu.edu/pipermail/gretl-users/2015-January/010610.html Let me just point out that this is not an internationalization bug: we're able to read from a "CSV" file data that uses ',' as the decimal point OK, provided (obviously) that the column separator is not also ','. The problem lies with including a thousands separator, whether it's ',' (as in English-speaking locales) or '.' as in many other locales. This is not recognized on input by the standard C library functions such as sscanf, regardless of locale. It's a purely cosmetic piece of punctuation which should never be written into data to be read by a computer. Allin Cottrell