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		redman25 on May 23, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Excel and SQL Excel's CSV export has a lot to be desired. From what I've tried, it doesn't export data in Unicode and exports non-standard CSV that many parsers choke on.

kyllo on May 24, 2013 [–]

Excel exports CSV in UTF-16 with byte order mark (BOM). Very annoying if you're sending the data to another application that is expecting UTF-8.

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