Re: Re: data import usability

[John Darrington]

On Sat, Apr 20, 2013 at 03:43:39PM +0200, Harry Thijssen wrote:
     >
     >      1. File, Import Data, then choose Comma Separated Values as the file
     > type. I
     >      don't know what file mask that applies, but it excludes *.csv.
     >
     > Harry, does the windows installer set the appropriate Registry entry for
     > .csv files?
     >
     >
     No, I have only registry entries for .por .sav en .sps files. On MSWindows
     this is usually done by the file extension.  So what should I register?

In the file importer filter we currently have the following mime types.

"text/plain"
"text/csv"
"text/tab-separated-values"
 ( I've never encountered   this last one, but it's listed here:
     http://www.iana.org/assignments/media-types/text/tab-separated-values )

In the not too distant future, I'm hoping to extend this gui to also import
the following mime types, so you might want to deal with these too:

"application/x-gnumeric"
"application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.spreadsheet"
     
     When registering something with the .csv files, I may get problems with
     office packages also registering *.csv files.

Why?  This would only be a problem if those packages associate the extension 
".csv" 
with something other than "text/csv"
     
     On my MSWindows test environment, only .txt files are correct filtered in
     the import box.
     
     
     Have fun

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