[GNC] General Ledger

[Kenneth Schneider]

When a GNUcash user requests that data be exported to an “CSV” file the expectation is that the file contents will indeed contain “CSV” data. Therefore I see no reason for omitting the “.csv” file extension.

Just my 2¢

Ken Schneider 

> On Mar 30, 2020, at 12:15 PM, Adrien Monteleone <adrien.monteleone at lusfiber.net> wrote:
> 
> I hadn’t noticed since most of my files have extensions anyway, but indeed, I just tested a markdown file by removing the extension. It changed the association from Atom to TextEdit, but couldn’t open it. (Something about UTF-8 not being applicable. ?? Really ?? Opening with Atom worked fine though.)
> 
> Preview doesn’t work either as noted.
> 
> Thanks for the info.
> 
> Regards,
> Adrien
> 
>>> On Mar 29, 2020 w14d89, at 10:17 PM, John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us> wrote:
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> On Mar 29, 2020, at 4:52 PM, Adrien Monteleone <adrien.monteleone at lusfiber.net> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Linux and Mac don’t generally care if a file has an extension. They determine the file type independent of it.
>> 
>> That's sadly no longer true of MacOS and hasn't been since IIRC 10.7. The pre-NeXTStep MacOS used a extended attribute to determine file type and the early versions of Mac OS X continued the practice. Support for that was deprecated in 10.6 and while not formally removed it seemed to stop working in 10.7. There is limited support for determining file type from the command line by looking at the file header, but Finder can't do that. File type displayed in Finder, application associations, and QuickLook  display of files is all driven by the extension.
>> 
>> Regards,
>> John Ralls
>> 
>> 
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