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Re:LibreOffice 7.1 Community Edition by ekianjo on Wednesday February 03, 2021 @09:51AM (#26014046)
Calc handles unicode csv properly, unlike Excel...
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Re:LibreOffice 7.1 Community Edition by corty on Wednesday February 03, 2021 @10:01AM (#26014163)
Calc handles CSV far better, period. Excel has language-dependent unconfigurable separators, quoting problems, whitespace problems, charset problems, BOM problems, weird expansion problems (like interpreting stuff as dates randomly), etc.

I cannot understand how anyone uses Excel with any nontrivial amount of CSV data without going mad...

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Re:LibreOffice 7.1 Community Edition by krylon on Thursday February 04, 2021 @05:41AM (#26024297)
> Calc handles CSV far better, period.

I wholeheartedly agree. :-) Dealing with CSV was the main reason I had LibreOffice installed on my work laptop.

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Re:LibreOffice 7.1 Community Edition by zokier on Wednesday February 03, 2021 @11:02AM (#26014863)
Power Query
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