>I don't understand what you mean about tab space columns though. I thought the whole point was that things were seperated by commas?
they are separated by commas. however, further to that, whitespace is stripped in the following manner
,"this is a text",
, this is a text ,
are identical. Therefore, the same results in notepad are generally achieved as Excel (eg) example
STR1, English , Pongolian
STR999, More English , More Pongolian
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although often used, I have never seen a csv that requires quotes except in the rare instance of making commas transparent in text.
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you can also have NO phrasing btwn commas. Even truncated commas (ie not as many as there are languages).
In which case, the engine takes the 2nd 'column' by default. Ie, for lack of any other, it will revert to the default, (English eg). This makes it exceptionally easy for a Hungarian to simply build a csv, in hungarian only and let someone else add to it, another language, when it suits.
Language, Hungarian
STR1, Ook?
STR2, More Ook?
other people can, add English, French, or whatever gives them a thrill. If they don't know a phrase, it doesn't matter, the hungarian will take it's place until it's sorted out.
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also comment on comments
ANY text (afaik) is a comment if the 1st three chars on a line don't begin STR. Exception is the 1st line of file (Language)
the reason why STR is a fixed in concrete label is that the engine knows to specifically look in STRingtable.csv as opposed to any other.
But, all in all Mac, I think you should keep the text to absolute basics so that people can grasp it's simplicity. Once they're over that, they can experiment for themselves. the format is exceptionally easy to understand, and very forgiving, if people wish to put complex statements between commans, then, fine, but it will mask the simplicity if you elaborate too much (imho)