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Change default CSV export options to include newlines on Windows #842
Description
There have been a few bug reports of DB4S mangling CSV output on Windows.
These have turned out to (technically) be "user error" from not having any newline character set in the Export CSV dialog options.
What this probably really means though, is that we should set the newline character as the default line ending on Windows. 😄
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chrisjlocke commentedon Oct 25, 2016
I would also suggest the quote character is also defaulted to a quote ( " ). At the moment, with nothing set, a NULL character is used, confusing people in thinking its garbled text.
justinclift commentedon Oct 30, 2016
@innermous This one might be worth looking too, at the same time: #845
Seems related. 😄
Use platform-wise line-endings in export CSV dialog (issue #842)
justinclift commentedon Oct 30, 2016
@chrisjlocke Would you have time/interest to try the nightly build tomorrow? @innermous just committed a fix for this. 😄
Use platform-wise line-endings in export CSV dialog (issue #842)
chrisjlocke commentedon Oct 30, 2016
Surely can....
chrisjlocke commentedon Nov 1, 2016
Deleted the registry settings and yes, DB4S resorted to comma, quote and newline characters as a default. Issue #845 remains though. Interestingly, setting manual quote characters gives different results to selecting 'hard wired' characters. Not sure whats that about.... 😖 Guess its to do with the logic on what needs to be quoted and what doesn't. This can be closed though, as the above issue is to do with #845.
justinclift commentedon Nov 1, 2016
Awesome, thanks guys! 😄
vtronko commentedon Nov 2, 2016
@chrisjlocke
Yeah, I haven't done anything to it yet. Don't understand the problem either, I'll investigate it soon.
Use platform-wise line-endings in export CSV dialog (issue #842)