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Re: Excel formulas in JavaScript

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Well done, but I fail at seeing how that could be useful?

Stringing this together with other libraries like http://github.com/warpech/jquery-handsontable and http://github.com/SheetJS/js-xlsx and http://github.com/SheetJS/js-xls could lead to a better web spreadsheet.

EDIT: someone already thought about combining those libraries: http://SheetJS.github.io

Re: Excel formulas in JavaScript

#9
Any support for i18n?

(For English-only speakers: Excel's translation to other languages goes as far as translating function names, thus rendering non-English Excel users' knowledge useless when confronted with an English Excel. E.g., IF(ROUND(A1)=1,B1,C1) in English Excel is JEŻELI(ZAOKR.DO.CAŁK(A1)=1,B1,C1) in Polish Excel -- yes, with all those funky non-ASCII letters.)

Re: Excel formulas in JavaScript

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post #9

Any support for i18n? (For English-only speakers: Excel's translation to other languages goes as far as translating function names, thus rendering non-English Excel users' knowledge useless when confronted with an English Excel. E.g., IF(ROUND(A1)=1,B1,C1) in English Excel is JEŻELI(ZAOKR.DO.CAŁK(A1)=1,B1,C1) in Polish Excel -- yes, with all those funky non-ASCII letters.)

This also includes changing argument separators according to the locale. In France, for instance, where commas are used as decimal separators, function arguments must be separated by semicolons. Faithful i18n should take both into account.
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