Re: [RFR] templates://gnumeric/{gnumeric.templates}
On Mon, Oct 15, 2007 at 18:32:13 +0100, Justin B Rye wrote:
> > + - Microsoft Excel (tm) 97/2000/XP (.xls);
> > + - Microsoft Excel (tm) 95 (.xls);
>
> Isn't that "MS Excel 95/97/2000/XP (.xls)"?
No. They are quite distinct versions (generations) of this file format and
applications working with one may not necessarily support the other.
> > + - Comma/Character Separated Values (.csv);
>
> I don't believe in "Character Separated". RFC4180 insists that .csv
> means "Comma-Separated", and the only cover-term I've encountered
> before is "Delimiter-Separated Values"... Ah, reading
> http://www.gnome.org/projects/gnumeric/doc I see that it can export
> to either .csv or .tsv, so we should say "Comma- or Tab-Separated".
There is also a generalised text export which supports arbitrary separators
and offers control over the method of quoting, line ends and character
encoding.
Ray
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