[data-protocols] Alternative Java Library

Thu Jun 20 20:04:15 BST 2013

Rufus,

Note that I said "not very" international-friendly. The reason is: CSV is
not actually a standard, or at least it's a format that comes in many
(local) flavors. Local CSV-clients tend to acknowledge this and favor the
local CSV flavor.

The fact has not to do with UTF-8 but with separators: many (most?)
mainland European countries use the comma as decimal separator, so CSV in
those countries (France, Germany, Italy, Spain, etc.) usually don't use the
comma as the column separator (see this Italian
example<http://www3.istat.it/strumenti/definizioni/comuni/elenco_comuni_italiani_30_giugno_2011.csv>).
There's a good reason to use the local convention as the local version of
clients like Excel will assume the local flavor.

X.

On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 8:42 PM, Rufus Pollock <rufus.pollock at okfn.org>wrote:

> On 20 June 2013 19:40, Xavier Badosa <xbadosa at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Jeff,
>>
>> in the web service model, it made much more sense from the standpoint of
>>> performance and simplicity to keep all the data in a single JSON file.
>>
>>
>> I agree with you (besides, I never liked CSV as the format is not very
>> international-friendly). I'd be interested to
>>
>
> Not sure I understand. How is CSV not "international friendly" :-) (is it
> that utf8 support can be a pain?)
>
> Rufus
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