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		userbinator on April 27, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: CSV Challenge What character is used for separator? Comma? Semi colon? Tab? It isn't Comma-Separated-Values if fields are not separated by commas, but the others are valid points. Failure to handle quoting correctly is the most common form of broken CSV support I've seen. Encoding is usually specified out-of-band.

troels on April 27, 2015 [–]

Technically no, but if you are in mainland Europe, Excel will happily save your CSV files using a semi colon. And, yes - that _is_ maddening.

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