On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 12:23:34PM +0100, Nick Phillips wrote: > 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.
This could be tricky if the decimal point is the same as the seperator? 3,4,5,6 <- How many fields/numbers in that line? That's why I prefer tab separated files... -- Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog@svana.org> http://svana.org/kleptog/ > Magnetism, electricity and motion are like a three-for-two special offer: > if you have two of them, the third one comes free.
