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		otikik 9 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: A love letter to the CSV format They could have just ignored the locale altogether though. Put dots on the numbers when using csv, and assume it has dots when importing

notpushkin 9 months ago [–]

This exactly. Numbers in XLS(X) are (hopefully) not locale-specific – why should they be in CSV?

afiori 9 months ago | [–]

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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