Yeah, I get it... the formatting goes away... why so alarmist? And is the formatting really "data" anyway?

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[–] 3 points 2 months ago (1 child)

Yeah, CSV is an archaic data format that lacks a lot of important nuances; like understanding that not everything is done the same way everywhere around the world.

I guess one viable alternative would be to use tabs for delimiting the data, since (afaik) tabs are not commonly found in normal spreadsheet data (I admit that I could be wrong).

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago*

    I’ve messed with both. But yeah, keeping an international mind is best. Separators are really unnecessary for data transfer so I usually just exclude them.

    One quirk I remember for Excel to recognize a date it has to be YYYY-MM-DD 12:00 PM because it doesn’t understand ISO-8601. 😓

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