On Nov 19, 2014, at 8:05 PM, Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> From a quick experiment, using Excel for Mac 2011, with a locale temporarily tweaked to use , as the decimal separator and . as the thousands separator, the wizard for importing data, if I try to import a CSV file, offers an option (under "Advanced..." in step 3 of the import wizard) to, on a per-column basis, control what characters to use as decimal and thousands separators when importing the file. It offers , as a decimal separator and . as a thousands separator by default in that case.
In an earlier step, it lets you specify the field separator (from a set that includes tab, semicolon, and comma).
It doesn't base the default for the separators on the locale; it appears, for what it's worth, to default to , as field separator, . as decimal separator, , as thousands separator.