XPost: comp.lang.fortran, comp.lang.c++   
   From: g@nowhere.invalid   
      
   In comp.lang.c David Brown  wrote:   
   > On 30/01/2026 21:28, Thomas Koenig wrote:   
   >> 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 :-(   
   >>   
   >   
   > Use UK settings, not US settings.  Then at least you get sane paper   
   > sizes and measurement units.   
   >   
   and sane dates...   
      
   > LibreOffice has its faults and weaknesses, but it is still far ahead of   
   > MS Office in many aspects.  (Or perhaps "less terrible" is more accurate?)   
      
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