Yes his other article said this too: https://donatstudios.com/CSV-An-Encoding-Nightmare https://donatstudios.com/CSV-An-Encoding-Nightmare As of this writing,

Yes his other article said this too: https://donatstudios.com/CSV-An-Encoding-Nightmare https://donatstudios.com/CSV-An-Encoding-Nightmare As of this writing, there exists a single usable CSV format that Microsoft Excel can both read and write safely across platforms. Tab delimited UTF-16LE with leading Byte Order Mark. I work with CSVs in R, but I don't work with Excel that much. Thanks for the useful tip.