This should be titled "What Vendors Should Account For When Publishing CSVs". If someone claims they're exporting a file in X format: * X should be a known st

This should be titled "What Vendors Should Account For When Publishing CSVs". If someone claims they're exporting a file in X format: * X should be a known standard OR * they should provide a client parser for X OR * they should provide a grammar or list of rules for parsing X This rant is focused in the wrong direction. It should go without saying that someone should deliver what they claim to. If CSV means different things to different people, that's fine too, but the burden should be on the exporter to define what it means to them. I'll accept a retitling of "Bullshit Developers Shouldn't Have to Question About a Common File Format".