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Excel: Error when CSV file starts with “I” and “D”
Actually newlines and commas are OK, and in fact arbitrary bytes
can
be put into CSV, because officially[1] CSV supports escaping using quotes (and escaping quotes by doubling them).
[1]
https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc4180.txt
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[1] https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc4180.txt