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		zbanks on Aug 1, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: CSV as a Data Source This also detects the file encoding & delimiters.

funstr on Aug 2, 2013 [–]

Automatic file encoding detection is only heuristic and cannot be in principle exact. But I do not want to criticize the import functionality. I just wanted to say that CSV is an obsolete format and should not be used for data interchange.

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