Discoverer does not have the feature to change the delimiter when you export CSV format from it. This has been rejected by Development with the enhancement request :
Bug 3179364 ENH EXPORT CSV FORMAT SHOULD BE ABLE TO SPECIFY THE SEPARATOR
So, Discoverer will always use the comma as delimiter when you export to .CSV format.
Now, to complete the picture, the delimiter is defined on Microsoft Operating System in the Control Panel >> Regional Settings => Numbers tab => List Separator and this is taken for example from Excel, so if you save from excel in .csv the delimiter will be the one defined in the List Separator. In any case, this is not a standard, so the point that it is working this way on Excel does not means that it should works the same on all other softwares, like Oracle Discoverer, this is not a bug in functionality. Generally .csv delimiter is always associated with comma :
http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4180
http://www.creativyst.com/Doc/Articles/CSV/CSV01.htm
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