> Just imagine what pain you have to go through if you want to parse a .csv file written by an application that "tried to do everything right and use locale".

> Just imagine what pain you have to go through if you want to parse a .csv file written by an application that "tried to do everything right and use locale". Microsoft Excel will helpfully use semicolons as field separators in this case, making parsing CSVs that came out of it in an unknown locale situation even more fun!