(skeletor is leading by example by adding that unnecessary apostrophe…)

  • dan@upvote.au
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    10 months ago

    Microsoft deviated from the specification

    There is no specification for CSV, which is why it’s such a mess and different parsers and renderers have wildly different features. The closest thing to a spec is RFC4180 but that RFC simply describes the most common features across several CSV implementations, and is not actually a spec.

    I agree that it should be comma separated though. My understanding is that it caused issues in countries that use a comma as a decimal point.

    Also, Excel sometimes uses tabs rather than commas or semicolons.