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Re:So you want to write your own CSV code (2014) by Someone on Friday May 15, 2020 @11:18AM (#23193142)
Even technical users have trouble round tripping data to Excel.

https://genomebiology.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13...:

“A programmatic scan of leading genomics journals reveals that approximately one-fifth of papers with supplementary Excel gene lists contain erroneous gene name conversions.”

That paper is from 2016, at least 12 years after the problem was first identified.

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