XPost: comp.lang.fortran, comp.lang.c++
From: tkoenig@netcologne.de

David Brown  schrieb:
[...]


> IME, locale settings can be a bigger hinder than help, especially on
> Windows and with MS Office.  If your program exports data in tab or
> semicolon separated formats to be opened in a spreadsheet, or has some
> other connection to MS Office programs, you have to use the formats that
> the locale wants, not the formats the current user wants.

That is so true.  Localization in MS Office is a pain, and the different
CSV formats are horrible.

On my personal PC, I have set the decimal separator, with German
settings otherwise, to a dot.  This makes data interoperable
with all sorts of scripts and other programs that I tend to use
togetether with data from Excel files.  Using tab as a separator works
pretty well then, it is at least unique.

I do have another computer, used as a workstation, which I keep
on US English settings.  This allows easier communication with,
for example, international support for programs which originate
outside of Germany.  It also allows me to have the original Excel
function names, which are also localized.  Luckily, I can save
an Excel file in English and than open it on my German-language
computer in German.


> (LibreOffice
> is vastly more flexible.)  Displaying a decimal point, decimal colon, or
> decimal apostrophe is not difficult - it is handling the imports and
> exports that is the challenge.

I have not yet succeeded in getting LibreOffice to display a decimal
point with German settings, and when I use US English I get inches
for paper sizes :-(

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