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2 unusual facts about Comma-separated values


United Kingdom Census 2011

The statistical authorities are also making available bulk data in Comma-separated values (CSV) file format which can be downloaded from online data warehouse facilities.

Webtrends

Reports are viewable by various means, most commonly through a web-based graphic user interface or a scheduled emailed export of the report in PDF or csv format.


CollabMobile

It supports connection to following data sources: MSSQL Server, Oracle, PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQL Server Analysis Services, Microsoft Excel, Amazon Redshift, CSV files.

Delimiter-separated values

Due to their widespread use, comma- and tab-delimited text files can be opened by several kinds of applications, including most spreadsheet programs, and statistical analysis tools such as PSPP, sometimes even without the user designating which delimiter has been used.

Family tree mapping

Map My Ancestors(Note as of 3 Oct 2011 this application was withdrawn from sale and no longer available, due to closure of Yahoo Mapping services see the source site for details) - a Windows application that imports GEDCOM files or comma-separated values (CSV) files and converts them to keyhole markup language (KML) files for viewing with KML compatible programs such as Google Earth or Google Maps.

Generalized keyboard

Michel Geiss, :fr:Christian Braut and Philippe Monsire built the Semantic Daniélou, a 36-tone (out of 53 just intonation notes listed in the book "Sémantique Musicale" by Alain Daniélou) electronic instrument, on behalf of the author, using staggered square key button keyboards from two Cavagnolo Midy 20 master keyboards, where each parallel row of keys offers a transposition by one comma.

Orwell comma

It is so named because the temperament eliminating this comma, Orwell temperament, has an optimal generator very close to 19 steps out of 84-equal temperament; this pattern of 19/84 steps is similar to the title of Orwell's novel 1984.

Papé Satàn, papé Satàn aleppe

The double mention of "papé" together with "Satan" (here interpreted as the fallen angel Satan) and the break (the comma) in the hendecasyllable, gives it a tone of a prayer or an invocation to Satan (although there is no verb traceable).

Polygonia c-aureum

The Asian Comma (Polygonia c-aureum) is a middle-size butterfly found in Japan (from Hokkaidō to Tanegashima), Korean Peninsula, China, Taiwan, and Indochina.

Punctuation

Arabic, Urdu, and Persian languages—written from right to left—use a reversed question mark: ؟, and a reversed comma: ، .

Ş

In early versions of Unicode, Ș (S-comma) was not present in the Unicode Standard.

T-comma

The Windows version of the Firefox web browser is able to generate S-comma and T-comma, even if the characters are missing from the system's fonts.

Although the X.Org Server supports the correct keyboard (ro comma) since at least 2005, selecting this keyboard from the user interface (e.g. GNOME Keyboard Properties) has only recently been made possible.


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