Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by jorams 804 days ago
CSV is extremely underspecified, but that doesn't mean it deserves the blame for software that fails to implement even the one thing it inherently specifies. A sequence of tabs is one value in a CSV. A sequence of semicolons is one value in a CSV. Any software that thinks otherwise is buggy, and unfortunately that includes some extremely popular software that is supposed to be good at tables (Excel).