https://www.fileseek.ca/Discussions/RSS/?TopicID=e93841be-33af-4469-bbdb-82b9e324ba47 FileSeek RSS: CSV export bug - wrong delimiter for non-US locales! Tue, 14 Apr 2026 08:00:20 GMT en hourly 1 https://www.fileseek.ca/Discussions/RSS/?TopicID=e93841be-33af-4469-bbdb-82b9e324ba47 https://www.fileseek.ca/Discussions/View/csv-export-bug-wrong-delimiter-for-non-us-locales/?ID=e93841be-33af-4469-bbdb-82b9e324ba47#4 Wed, 22 Apr 2015 16:57:48 GMT Binary Fortress Software https://www.fileseek.ca/Discussions/View/csv-export-bug-wrong-delimiter-for-non-us-locales/?ID=e93841be-33af-4469-bbdb-82b9e324ba47#4 FileSeek The new version works perfectly, many thanks!! ]]> https://www.fileseek.ca/Discussions/View/csv-export-bug-wrong-delimiter-for-non-us-locales/?ID=e93841be-33af-4469-bbdb-82b9e324ba47#3 Wed, 22 Apr 2015 16:01:26 GMT Binary Fortress Software https://www.fileseek.ca/Discussions/View/csv-export-bug-wrong-delimiter-for-non-us-locales/?ID=e93841be-33af-4469-bbdb-82b9e324ba47#3 FileSeek We've just released a new FileSeek version (http://www.fileseek.ca/Download) and this issue should be all fixed up. Please let us know if you run into any trouble after updating.

Thanks! ]]> https://www.fileseek.ca/Discussions/View/csv-export-bug-wrong-delimiter-for-non-us-locales/?ID=e93841be-33af-4469-bbdb-82b9e324ba47#2 Wed, 08 Apr 2015 19:42:29 GMT Binary Fortress Software https://www.fileseek.ca/Discussions/View/csv-export-bug-wrong-delimiter-for-non-us-locales/?ID=e93841be-33af-4469-bbdb-82b9e324ba47#2 FileSeek Interesting! I didn't realize that there were different separators for CSV. Thanks for the heads up

I've added this to our list, and we'll definitely let you know when we've made that change. ]]> https://www.fileseek.ca/Discussions/View/csv-export-bug-wrong-delimiter-for-non-us-locales/?ID=e93841be-33af-4469-bbdb-82b9e324ba47 Tue, 07 Apr 2015 15:40:31 GMT Binary Fortress Software https://www.fileseek.ca/Discussions/View/csv-export-bug-wrong-delimiter-for-non-us-locales/?ID=e93841be-33af-4469-bbdb-82b9e324ba47 FileSeek I've been using FileSeek for a few years now, but today was the first time I ever had the need to export results to a CSV file! However, when I tried to open the resulting file in Excel, every line was loaded into column A.

Why?

My OS is English (Windows 8.1 Enterprise), but my locale (currency, keyboard etc.) is set to Portugal/Portuguese. The CSV files generated by FileSeek use a comma "," as the record separator, but most European countries use the semicolon ";" because the comma is actually the decimal separator.

In my case the solution was simple - since every record was also wrapped in double quotes, I just replaced "," with ";" and the file opened fine. But it would be great if FileSeek could use the system defined record separator, instead of assuming US (like) regional settings .

Thanks for listening! ]]>