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		notpushkin 5 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: A love letter to the CSV format This exactly. Numbers in XLS(X) are (hopefully) not locale-specific – why should they be in CSV?

afiori 5 months ago [–]

CSV -> text/csv

Microsoft Excel -> application/vnd.ms-excel

CSV is a text format, xls[x], json, and (mostly) xml are not.

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