[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 74580] FILEOPEN: Add option to disable import dialog when opening a CSV file (see comment #13)

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=74580

--- Comment #44 from grnbrg <libreoffice at grnbrg.org> ---
Adding another vote for this issue.

I understand that CSV files *can* have significant variation in format. 
However, that variation is likely to be much lower for each individual user.

A similar issue has already been dealt with in Writer, where there are two
plain text formats to choose from:  "Text" and "Text - Choose Encoding".  The
first option (which is the default, and used when a *.txt file is opened via
the command line, or if "All Files" is selected in the dialog box uses the
current default character encoding.  To open a file with a non-default, the
"Text - Choose Encoding" option *must* be selected.  If the user forgets to do
so, the file opens with the default, and renders incorrectly.

This is not unreasonable behaviour.  As a user, I understand that not all csv
files are formatted correctly, and if I don't automatically get the results I
expect, I will need to adjust the filter, and if I deal with multiple formats,
I'm going to have to adjust the filter often.  

Similar behaviour for CSV files makes sense.  The "CSV" file format should
automatically apply the currently specified csv encoding parameters to files
detected or specified as csv.  There should also be a "CSV - Choose Encoding"
file format which brings up the current filter dialog that allows the user to
specify the formatting for that particular file.  I would also suggest that the
filter dialog include a new checkbox to specify that these new settings should
become the default.

A possible new configuration checkbox could be added to "Tools -> Options ->
Load/Save -> Load" labelled "Always prompt for Text or CSV Encoding", which (if
set) would result in the current behaviour.


grnbrg

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