Re: Reading an excel spread*** using Lisp

From: Edi Weitz (edi_at_agharta.de)
Date: 12/15/03 

Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2003 20:05:50 +0100

On 15 Dec 2003 18:04:34 GMT, Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org> wrote:

> Edi Weitz <edi@agharta.de> wrote:
>> It turns out that (despite of the "comma" in CSV) the Excel
>> delimiter is a semicolon
>
> That's because you're operating in a German locale. In this locale,
> the decimal separator is a comma and the column separator is a
> semicolon.

Hehe - where do you know that from? Actually, I'm using an English
version of Windows XP and an English version of Office XP. But you're
right - I had set the locale for number representation to German to be
compatible with one of my clients.

Thanks,
Edi.