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Re:So you want to write your own CSV code (2014) by jaxx75 on Friday May 15, 2020 @10:13AM (#23192417)
Try a UTF8 CSV with Windows-1252 free-form text in some fields. I believe dealing with character encoding is the most frustrating thing a developer can do.
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Re:So you want to write your own CSV code (2014) by recursive on Friday May 15, 2020 @02:32PM (#23195633)
> I believe dealing with character encoding is the most frustrating thing a developer can do.

I'll take your encoding work if you take my timezone work.

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