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		Pxtl on April 24, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Excel formulas in JavaScript Oooh, so if I make a spanish excel file and open it in an english excel, the function names are all translated? That's actually pretty neat. Power of storing your equations in a binary format instead of plain text, I guess.

ygra on April 24, 2014 [–]

As far as I know it's still text, but the function names are stored in English and are only localised within the Excel UI.

Fun fact: Some old versions of Excel even had a localised VBA ... using ZeichenF instead of String and other oddities made that a very weird experience.

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