Bug#609984: l10n: CSV export should be performed in the C locale

[Samuel Hym]

Hello Andreas,

Sorry for the very late reply.
For some reason I didn't get notified of your message.

I sadly know that no specification exists for csv.
Nevertheless, in the absence of such a specification, the best thing
to do would be to implement what would be the most portable, among
what's commonly implemented.

I would argue that a portable file format cannot be localized.
Furthermore, localisation is meaningful only when the reader is human.
I might be wrong but I assume that hardly the most common case for csv
files.
And I think that the case for human reader is already amply covered by
the Text exporter.

Best regards
Samuel

2011/2/22, Andreas J. Guelzow andreas.guel...@concordia.ab.ca:
 Why does this make the file non-portable? There is no
 csv-specification that prefers one over the other.

 Gnumeric for example can open either. We assume that files we want to
 open are in the current locale. So saving a csv file using the C locale
 would mean that we could not open it with the csv importer.

 Andreas



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Bug#609984: l10n: CSV export should be performed in the C locale

[Andreas J. Guelzow]

Why does this make the file non-portable? There is no
csv-specification that prefers one over the other.

Gnumeric for example can open either. We assume that files we want to
open are in the current locale. So saving a csv file using the C locale
would mean that we could not open it with the csv importer.

Andreas




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Bug#609984: l10n: CSV export should be performed in the C locale

[Samuel Hym]

Package: gnumeric
Version: 1.10.12-1
Severity: normal
Tags: l10n

Hello,

Currently the CSV export filter uses the current locale to write decimal
numbers, which renders the generated files non-portable. Of course, such
localised behaviour is interesting but it is already covered by the Text
filter, in which portability is not the major issue. Without any offered
option, I would expect the CSV filter to generate the most reliable format in
some other software.

Best regards,
Samuel Hym




-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=es_ES.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=es_ES.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL 
set to es_ES.UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

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ii  procps  1:3.2.8-10   /proc file system utilities
ii  zlib1g  1:1.2.3.4.dfsg-3 compression library - runtime

Versions of packages gnumeric recommends:
ii  evince2.30.3-2   Document (PostScript, PDF) viewer
ii  lp-solve  5.5.0.13-7 Solve (mixed integer) linear progr

Versions of packages gnumeric suggests:
ii  epiphany-browser   2.30.6-1  Intuitive GNOME web browser
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ii  gnumeric-plugins-extra 1.10.12-1 spreadsheet application for GNOME 
ii  ttf-liberation 1.05.2.20091019-4 Fonts with the same metrics as Tim
ii  ttf-mscorefonts-instal 3.3   Installer for Microsoft TrueType c

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