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by jstanley 437 days ago
Meanwhile every time I import a CSV into LibreOffice I can't work out how to make it interpret my dates as actual dates.
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If it provides any comfort, Excel in turn is unable to properly open/save a CSV with the separator being a comma (!) unless the regional settings of Windows are not defining it as such.

On german systems it's for example a semicolon, so a CSV is basically a "semicolon separated value" file, and there is no working solution around that...

How do you make a comma seperated CSV with numbers with commas in them?
A comma separated CSV with decimal numbers uses a dot as a decimal point (US regional setting)

A German CSV uses a semicolon as a separator and a comma as a decimal point (German regional setting)

To create a US-style CSV on a German PC (with expectation to create a common CSV format) you need to change the regional setting of Windows before opening Excel...

The standard way is to wrap the field in quotes.
you don't. use SQLite instead