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by zelphirkalt 667 days ago
If time could be turned back, a good idea would be to make CSV mean CSV. Not semicolon separated values, not any other thing separated values, but only comma separated values. To not overload the name in the first place.
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And I would rename the format to SSV and make semicolon the separator. Comma is a terrible choice, because it's used as the decimal separator in many countries around the world.
Yep. Also limit data that can be stored there. Absolutely no decimal values. Absolutely no text.

Ban those things and it starts to become reasonable enough for general use.