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Luckily this is a UI thing and the files themself normalize to English. So the project could still be useful for opening Excel files on the web (theoretically).

Oooh, so if I make a spanish excel file and open it in an english excel, the function names are all translated?

That's actually pretty neat. Power of storing your equations in a binary format instead of plain text, I guess.

As far as I know it's still text, but the function names are stored in English and are only localised within the Excel UI.

Fun fact: Some old versions of Excel even had a localised VBA ... using ZeichenF instead of String and other oddities made that a very weird experience.

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