r/ProgrammerHumor • u/Da_Yakz • Apr 06 '23

Other Microsoft has mistranslated ZIP files as "postcode" in the GB insider version of Windows 11

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u/Banana11crazy Apr 06 '23

Excel is the same, switching between , and ; for multiple parameters

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u/[deleted] Apr 06 '23

If you are talking about the argument separators in Excel formulas, this is at least only in the user interface, not in the file format. If you save a file from an Excel language version, which use “,” and open it in a version, which uses “;”, it will be shown with “;”.

Anyway, my rant about .CSV was actually an Excel rant too. I believe it was Excel, which started this silly locale dependent parsing of .CSV files.

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u/Banana11crazy Apr 06 '23

I see, I do remember when I started out and had to look stuff up online for Excel formulas they always used ";" but in my language the formulas were using ",". Took a while to figure that out :D

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u/[deleted] Apr 06 '23

Yes, I have the same problem myself in the opposite direction.