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Re:A love letter to the CSV format by whizzter on Wednesday March 26, 2025 @04:16PM (#43486756)
Not to mention that stuff like Excel loves to export CSV files in "locale specific ways".

Sometimes commas to delimiter, sometimes semicolons, floating point values might have dots or commas to separate fraction digits.

Not to mention text encodings, Ascii, western european character sets, or maybe utf-8 or whatever...

It's a bloody mess.

Re:A love letter to the CSV format by ohgr on Wednesday March 26, 2025 @07:33PM (#43488754)
That’s why we just email the sheets around like it’s 1999 :)