Import CSV into Numbers under European Settings?

SUMMARY: Anyone know how to import a CSV into Numbers on the iPhone when under European settings?
DETAIL:
The iPhone version of numbers seems to have difficulties reading any CSV if the user's device is on a setting where the decimal separator is a comma (e.g. 12,00) (such as most of Europe). Interestingly the iPad version does not have this problem.
For example HelloWorld.csv containing
Hello,World
imports as all one line rather than in two columns.
UTF8 of UTF16 doesn't seem to make a difference.
Changing the comma to a tab doesn't make a difference. (Numbers won't import .tsv files either.)
Adding quotes to the fields doesn't help.
Suggestions on creating a file that Numbers can import?

On the iPhone, go to Settings, then General, then International, then Region Format. Set that to whatever it is on the iPad and then the CSV file should import the same on iPhone as it does on iPad. Not sure what else it will change, but if you have it changed on your iPad already, maybe it won't be a problem for the iPhone. And you can always change it back after importing the file I guess. Good luck.

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