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		orthoxerox on March 26, 2025 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: A love letter to the CSV format But what if one of your columns contains arbitrary binary data?

ndsipa_pomu on March 26, 2025 [–]

You'd likely need to uuencode it or similar as CSV isn't designed for binary data.

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