More on the commas vs. semicolons in CSV

Apparently the practice of using non-commas for CSV files comes from
the fact that some countries use commas as the radix or the decimal
point separator, to separate the main part of the number from the
fraction.

>From a standards perspective, both commas and dots can be used in
decimal numbers, as per resolution 10 of the International Bureau of
Weights and Measures:

http://www.bipm.org/utils/en/pdf/Resol22CGPM-EN.pdf

Yakov

Received on Monday, 31 March 2014 03:11:12 UTC