Re: [Gretl-users] Export data & Decimal point
Am 10.06.2010 10:33, schrieb Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti:
On Thu, 10 Jun 2010, Sven Schreiber wrote:
> CSV files nowadays aren't even necessarily "comma-separated" and are
> surely *not* intended by many users to be portable across countries.
> (Even though that might be nice, but it just isn't the case.)
Says who?
well for example when you save an OpenOffice Spreadsheet file to
"text/csv" then the currently set decimal separator (usually from the
locale) is used. Obviously not portable.
Now you may say that's exactly the problem with Office-like programs,
and maybe it's because OOo imitates MS Office too much, but that would
kind of miss the point. The point is that CSV is not standardized enough
to warrant the assumption that the decimal separator is the dot. Then
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.
Ok, I think I made my point, personally I don't really care that much
(even if it sounded otherwise), so I will stop pushing this.
cheers,
sven