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A CSV importer absolutely needs to be configurable. I've seen delimiters including tabs, vertical bars, tildes, colons, and random control characters (they didn't even choose RS and US).


I shouldn't have to resort to arcane concepts like importing files to get them to display properly when people in other locales can just open them.


Good luck with configuration if your CSV parser is ten layers removed from any human, and still needs to get it right. Now what? (Now we guess. We call it "heuristics," of course.)




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