Character set conversions

[Simen Kjaeraas]

On Mon, 30 May 2011 19:57:32 +0200, Jérôme M. Berger <jeberger at free.fr>  
wrote:

> 	Fun fact about Excel generated CSV files: quite apart from encoding
> issues, the separator used between cells depends on the locale: for
> example, in English locales it uses a coma but in French locales it
> uses a semicolon...
>
> 	Just thought I'd point it out in case you did not know.

Fun? Gods, it's the most horrible idea I've witnessed in computing.
If only they'd call it something other than CSV, at least - Comma Separated
Values separated by semicolons? WTF?
And the fantastic joy of opening one of those abominations in some other
program... *shiver*

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   Simen