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Re:CSV as a Data Source by nemetroid on Thursday August 01, 2013 @05:43PM (#6143751)
Strictly, the definition in RFC 4180 mandates ASCII which makes it unusable for many purposes. I guess there's nothing practical stopping you from using another encoding though.
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Re:CSV as a Data Source by steveklabnik on Thursday August 01, 2013 @07:29PM (#6144337) 

  >      Common usage of CSV is US-ASCII, but other character sets defined
  >      by IANA for the "text" tree may be used in conjunction with the
  >      "charset" parameter.
http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc6657.txt

https://www.iana.org/assignments/character-sets/character-se...

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