Abbreviations in community posts

[jesus2099]

Notify artists making own edits

EPK

I’ve just had to lookup this one: Electronic Press Kit (EPK).

[Lotheric]

AFAICT
IIRC

[InvisibleMan78]

The possible end of userscript managers on Chromium-based browsers

Again, this is a concern for Chrome (and chrome-based-browser)-users right? I’m currently so allergic to G%§$e that I fail to feel sorry for anyone who uses their products. Why would you use spyware like Chrome and then want to block ads anyway? Either you care about your privacy or you don’t. Everybody just switch to Firefox or another FLOSS browser and enjoy your new freedom!

FLOSS browser

There are a number of related terms and abbreviations for free and open-source software (FOSS or F/OSS), or free/libre and open-source software (FLOSS or F/LOSS – FLOSS is the FSF-preferred term).

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_and_open-source_software#Overview

[IvanDobsky]

I used a TLA and noticed it did not get picked up. Or maybe it is too geeky?

CSV is Comma Separate Values.

Or a way to make a plain dumb text file work as a database record.

Example:

Name, Rank, Number
Clegg, Corporal, 83954032
Pepper, Sergeant, 19654654

[InvisibleMan78]

IHMO the C can also stand for “Character” so CSV could also mean “Character Separated Values”.
I’m wrong?

Your example is also true with:
Name; Rank; Number
Clegg; Corporal; 83954032
Pepper; Sergeant; 19654654

[IvanDobsky]

@InvisibleMan78 it is Commas that separate the values. So Comma Separated Values is the standard meaning. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CSV https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comma-separated_values

[jesus2099]

In France we more often separate with semicolons “;” because commas have the same function, in numbers, as dot in English: π = 3,14…
But it’s surely called comma separated values, at the origins, as it was most certainly created in USA.

[IvanDobsky]

@jesus2099 this is not about the way different nations represent numbers. It is simple computer text files from the 1980s. I put the wiki links up there to give details instead of my waffle. It also explains how it is not always literally a “comma” and semicolons are also common separators.

[jesus2099]

this is not about the way different nations represent numbers. It is simple computer text files from the 1980s. I put the wiki links up there to give details instead of my waffle.

They same the same as I did, maybe better said:

Adjacent fields must be separated by a single comma. However, “CSV” formats vary greatly in this choice of separator character. In particular, in locales where the comma is used as a decimal separator, semicolon, TAB, or other characters are used instead.