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this post was submitted on 19 Aug 2026
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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).
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 PMbecause it doesn’t understand ISO-8601. 😓