Exactly. People keep linking to the spec like that matters. The reality on the ground is that CSV has tons of different incompatible implementations or just si

Exactly. People keep linking to the spec like that matters. The reality on the ground is that CSV has tons of different incompatible implementations or just simply terrible parsers. Even if you produce spec-correct CSV it won't work with a lot of third party's libraries or parsers. Just ask anyone who works with CSV and lots of companies about double quotes around fields, I assure you they'll have a flag in their system to: include them, exclude them, and include them in records which contain commas only. Plus CSV and internationalisation is a giant cluster fuck in its own right. Ever seen a U+FF0C or other comma[0] in a CSV? Yeah that is fun. [0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comma#Comma_variants http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comma#Comma_variants