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But it's so rarely done right.

I remember Klarna using ", " as their separator. Not ",". There had to be a space as well, which most CSV parsers can not do. So when giving us a CSV file, with currency, and Swedish kronor used "," as the decimal separator you'd get some fun result. Pretty much every CSV parser we tried would assume that kronor and øre was two separate fields.

I doubt ASV would be done right more often

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