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Re:A love letter to the CSV format by otikik on Wednesday March 26, 2025 @05:29PM (#43487548)
They could have just ignored the locale altogether though. Put dots on the numbers when using csv, and assume it has dots when importing
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Re:A love letter to the CSV format by notpushkin on Thursday March 27, 2025 @02:09AM (#43490786)
This exactly. Numbers in XLS(X) are (hopefully) not locale-specific – why should they be in CSV?
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Re:A love letter to the CSV format by afiori on Thursday March 27, 2025 @04:47AM (#43491536)
CSV -> text/csv

Microsoft Excel -> application/vnd.ms-excel

CSV is a text format, xls[x], json, and (mostly) xml are not.

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