Hello Andreas, Sorry for the very late reply. For some reason I didn't get notified of your message.
I sadly know that no specification exists for csv. Nevertheless, in the absence of such a specification, the best thing to do would be to implement what would be the most portable, among what's commonly implemented. I would argue that a portable file format cannot be localized. Furthermore, localisation is meaningful only when the reader is human. I might be wrong but I assume that hardly the most common case for csv files. And I think that the case for human reader is already amply covered by the Text exporter. Best regards Samuel 2011/2/22, Andreas J. Guelzow <andreas.guel...@concordia.ab.ca>: > Why does this make the file non-portable? There is no > "csv-specification" that prefers one over the other. > > Gnumeric for example can open either. We assume that files we want to > open are in the current locale. So saving a csv file using the C locale > would mean that we could not open it with the csv importer. > > Andreas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
