Re: Date format (was: How many people need locales?)
On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 12:23:34PM +0100, Nick Phillips wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 12:53:37PM +0200, Petr Cech wrote:
> > On Tue, Sep 04, 2001 at 09:17:12PM +1000 , Martijn van Oosterhout wrote:
> > > Does that mean it should always take a certain format irrespective of the
> > > locale? If so, which format?
> >
> > or number format. ie. in Czech decimal separator is `,' comma and in C it's
> > `.' dot. OK, now restart gnumeric in other locale and you cannot load the
> > file :((
>
> Which implies that it needs to know the locale used by the file. This
> means that you either need to:
>
> 1) always use the same locale, or
> 2) tell it which local is used by the file at load time, either manually or
> by the use of metadata in/around the file.
This could be tricky if the decimal point is the same as the seperator?
3,4,5,6 <- How many fields/numbers in that line?
That's why I prefer tab separated files...
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