Re: [poedit-users] ordering the translations?

On Tue, 2008-07-08 at 10:52 +0200, Samuel Murray (Groenkloof) wrote:
> There is no 'standard' CSV, so if you're going to do some
> programming, may I suggest you also write a very small CSV validator
> to check if a user's CSV is the type of CSV expected by your PoEdit
> importer

Or for bonus points, let the user choose which columns to import...

> files).  You can't know what the CSV file will look like that your 
> spreadsheet program spits out, but anyone can copy and paste two
> columns from the spreadsheet into a plaintext file.

And anyone can copy and paste something just as unexpected as an
unexpected CSV file into plaintext file. The killer reason for using CSV
is that *every* spreadsheet application can write it. And there's
actually a specification for (commonly used variant of) CSV in RFC 4180
(and the Wikipedia description isn't bad either).

Regards,
Vaclav

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