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The option to define the field delimiter is provided because some localized Windows programs for LOCALEs where comma " , " is used as a decimal sign and requires a semicolon " ; " as field separator. This includes Microsoft Office programs (Excel and Access) and Microsoft text-ODBC driver on such localized Windows. On Linux, the situation is more non-uniform but also such localized OpenOffice Calc (spreadsheet) requires semicolon " ; " as field separator.