On Fri, 25 Nov 2011, Allin Cottrell wrote: > On Fri, 25 Nov 2011, Henrique Andrade wrote: > >> I´m trying to save data into comma-separated values (the csv >> extension) files using the Brazilian standard (comma as the >> decimal point character) but it is not working. Gretl only saves >> the text file with point as the decimal point character. [...] > > You don't want "set force_decpoint on" here, but something has > indeed gone wrong: it seems you can't currently save CVS data > using anything other than "." as the decimal character. (I'm not > sure when that happened.)
Correction: you can do this, but only via the GUI. When you choose to export data as CVS under the /File menu, and the decimal "," is currently in force, you get the option of setting "," as the decimal character in the CSV output -- but it's never the default, which I think is correct. The question then is, do we want to provide the same option for command-line use? That is, a way to force use of the decimal comma in CSV export, although it's not recommended. Allin
