Locale

[Nick Lamb <njl98r ecs soton ac uk>]

Here's an interesting question which I thought about before but put on the
back burner when Gnumeric's locale support was very poor (1.0.x series)

In Excel do sheets / workbooks have a locale of their own?

Gnumeric's input routines, and many of its Excel-clone functions are
dependent on locale information. What is a mere string on an American PC
is a date, or a currency value in France or Japan.

When I take a British spreadsheet to a French computer it may break (as
in, functions will return the wrong value or #errors and the sheet will
not operate as expected).  Does that happen in Excel too?

If it's supposed to work this way then some of the test sheets ought to
say in a heading font 'Test this sheet in locale fr_US.iso-8859-6' or
whatever is appropriate (example was intentionally unlikely)

Nick.