[munk-a]

I much prefer ingesting CSVs into LibreOffice since it's a lot more upfront about what encoding it's going to try and use and the delimiter it has chosen - and those choices are extremely easy to modify and flexible. Excel also has a habit of utterly clobbering character encoding on export - once you start seeing umlauts and cedillas in your text you'll notice that Excel has a really bad habit of chosen latin-1.

[capeterson]

Yeah I suppose that's the crux of it. I really like that first popup that LibreOffice has when you open it up where you can specify encoding, delimiters, etc.

LibreOffice does a similar amount of clobbering, but in general it notifies you of any would-be clobbering and allows you to abort beforehand, which is really nice. I still avoid exporting via LibreOffice though for very sensitive situations, but it is noticeably better still.