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		masklinn on Aug 18, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Time to retire the CSV? Even if it were true it wouldn't matter a whit to the production side of the format, which is what "produce CSVs using fprintf" is: excel can consume them all.

megous on Aug 18, 2021 [–]

As someone who tried, Excel's handling of CSV files was the reason to abandon the idea and generate XLSX.

Libreoffice handles normal UTF-8 encoded, quoted value CSV files fine. Excel not so much.

masklinn on Aug 18, 2021 | [–]

Did you misread / misunderstand my comment somehow? Hint: my comment is not about generating CSV for excel to consume.

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