Reports, probably again

YeOldHinnerk HRamthun at gmx.de
Thu Jul 12 07:50:01 EDT 2012


One thing to bear in mind: CSV is not a proper standard. There really are
differences to CSV conventations between different countries. In the US, ","
is the proper delimiter, while in Germany ";" is the proper delimiter. Same
is true for number formats - in the US "." is used as a decimal point and in
Germany ",". A good CSV implementation should respect these two very common
settings, or more to the point, let the user choose the delimited (some may
want TAB...)

Also, all entries should be doule quoted, whether they contain the delimiter
or not. It just makes life easier for all...

Information to be export should the the table of the report.
Any headline (report name) should be first entry in the file, all by itself
in a single line.

One could of course allow for an option to export additional information,
like report settings. But that would be an add-on for the second round, as I
see it.


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