Re: [Gretl-users] Export data & Decimal point
On 6/10/2010 3:35 AM, Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti wrote:
While I am against this on ideological grounds, I have to admit that
a
checkbox wouldn't be difficult to add. But I hate the idea of giving
support or credibility to the concept of "national CSV" format, which
is, after all, one of the many ways Microsoft has polluted the
environment: I am not aware of any application other than Excel (or
Excel derivatives) that considers a "national CSV" file as a valid CSV
file (the "C" in CSV is there for a reason).
Pursuing this, if gretl is going to read and write a *file format*,
that format should be documented. How exactly will this documentation
read, unless there is going to be some kind of header for overriding
the comma in *comma* separated values.
Related:
Much more important that allowing an override of what is becoming
an **international** convention for **scientific** data (see earlier
emails) is allowing for comment lines in a CSV file. But again,
please make sure there is reference documentation.
Cheers,
Alan Isaac