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This is so wrong it’s hard to figure out where to start. Excel doesn’t make proper CSVs and it’s not a reference for anything. I can change the extension of an
by DataWorker 8y ago
This is so wrong it’s hard to figure out where to start. Excel doesn’t make proper CSVs and it’s not a reference for anything. I can change the extension of an html file to CSV and open it in excel, it’s still an html file.
- cwyers 8y agoExcel is certainly a reference for what your end-users expect your software to be able to do.
- ryanbrunner 8y agoExcel makes proper CSVs insofar as when you say that you allow people to import CSV files into your application, the vast vast majority will be using Excel to create / manipulate those CSV files (and if they don't, whatever tool they DO use will have made efforts to work consistently with Excel). What any other spec actually says is irrelevant. For most non-technical users, anything Excel outputs as a CSV is a CSV file (and anything you output that doesn't work with Excel is not)