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by code-faster 825 days ago
CSV is great because excel can import it, but it can't import USV, so at that point, why use USV when you can use JSON?

https://github.com/tyleradams/json-toolkit/
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hiccuphippo 825 days ago
Maybe their objective in submiting to the ietf is to get programs like Excel to start supporting it.
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layer8 825 days ago
That’s… not how Excel/Microsoft works.
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jph 824 days ago
Yes you're exactly right.
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extraduder_ire 825 days ago
Can you not customize the separators used when importing csv-likes into excel? Libreoffice has a neat little window for it that even shows a preview of what values go into which cells.
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da_chicken 825 days ago
Sure if you want to stop and fiddle with Excel.

If you want to just double click and get to work, no.

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