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Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Bug with localized decimal separator

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From: "John McDermott" <jjm@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2005 13:00:07 -0700
On Fri, 11 Mar 2005 20:06:22 +0000, Julian Fielding <jfielding@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Guy Harris wrote:
Lars Ruoff wrote:
B - When exporting a CList to CSV format, the exported data is
unusable,
since the comma "," is used as both the column- and decimal separator.

That one's harder, but
<snip>

Why not make the field (column) delimiter a user preference?

or why not quote the fields with commas in them? That is how most CSV data works, IME.
--john
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