Hi :) Thanks :) I'm fairly sure .csv has no internationally agreed standard but given what one certain company does with such standards I thinks that's not really relevant.
Advantages are (imo); * that it can be read in some way or other by a vast range of programs * very easy to edit * easy to convert a file from one implementation to another * very compact yet straight-forwards * easy to compress and uncompress teliably and consistently Thanks for the insight wrt jeadless/cli mode too. Regards from Tom :) On 14 Jul 2017 08:25, "Uwe Brauer" <[email protected]> wrote: > >>> "Tom" == Tom Davies <[email protected]> writes: > > > Hi :) > > Does .xlsx work well enough now? > Yes and no. > > That is after some trouble I found out that I convert cvs with . For > decimals to xlsx which are read correctly by LO and Excel. > > However there is an issue. > > When I convert csv (and you might ask why I use them, for simple tables > I use emacs org mode (with a poor man spreadsheet, which exports to > csv). > > Then I convert it either opening the file with LO and exporting to xlsx > or on the command line with gnumeric > > ssconvert example.csv example.xlsx > > What does not work, is the command line converter of LO, > > /usr/bin/soffice --headless --convert-to xlsx test.csv > > the decimals > are fine but the non ascii chars are encoded incorrectly. See my message > sent some weeks ago. > > Regards > > Uwe Brauer > > > -- > To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] > Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to- > unsubscribe/ > Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette > List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ > All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be > deleted > > -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
