Re: Date format (was: How many people need locales?)
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.
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