Agreed, CSV sucks if you data contains punctuation. UTF-8 encoded tab-delimited tables are preferred. These are kind of a pain to import into Excel (on Mac at

Agreed, CSV sucks if you data contains punctuation. UTF-8 encoded tab-delimited tables are preferred. These are kind of a pain to import into Excel (on Mac at least) because you have to specify exactly what format they are in, but it can be done and there is no worry about quoting conventions and so forth unless your data contains literal tab characters that are important.