On 9/8/09 22:24 , various people wrote: > Unfortunately, the 3 main families of small computer operating systems > have 3 different definitions of what a text file is... > > DOS/Windows (PC): lines are terminated with CR+LF > Unix: lines are terminated with LF > Macintosh: lines are terminated with CR [...] > FYI: Mac excel does not separate rows with \r, but inserts a ^M instead. [...] > From: "Kavita Raghunathan" <kavita.raghunat...@skyfiber.com> > > Yes, this works. Must have been my original csv file. > I was using mac based excel and I'll now try using the windows based > excel.
For the record, the Mac has not been using CR line terminations for many years now (2001). Microsoft, in its not very high wisdom, proposes in the latest Mac version of Excel, 4 export formats that might correspond, with useless names: 1- the main format at the top of the menu is named "Comma Separated Values (.csv)" It's a comma -separated, CR-terminated format, with characters encoded in MacRoman ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mac_OS_Roman). As both line-termination and character-encoding conventions have stopped being used for many years, it's despicable from Micros__t to continue to name it as they do, and to propose it as the main choice. 2- secondary format named "Tab delimited text (.txt)" Same as 1-, except the separator is now a tab character. Totally useless format 3- secondary format named "Windows Comma-separated (.csv)" Line terminations: CR-LF (Windows convention) Character encoding: CP1502 (Windows extension to ISO-8859-1) This is the most useful format, as it's likely to work for interoperability with the Windows world. 4- secondary format named "MS-Dos Comma-separated (.csv)" Line terminations: CR Character encoding: CP850 ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CP850) A totally obsolete variant. Notably missing would be for example the *current* version: line terminated with LF and UTF8 encoding. I will stop there. Ranting on MS is bad for my nerves. Jean-Denis _______________________________________________ sqlite-users mailing list sqlite-users@sqlite.org http://sqlite.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users
