> it's a shame that this isn't standardised Let me tell you about the pain of CSV-files that use ; as a delimiter because otherwise you couldn't use decimal nu

> it's a shame that this isn't standardised Let me tell you about the pain of CSV-files that use ; as a delimiter because otherwise you couldn't use decimal numbers. Or in office documents where MS "translates" commas. That means you also need to replace all , and ; if you translate office scripts from English to a language with other decimal rules. Nevermind the parsing of numbers in general... That stuff can crashes moon probes.