How to share your data effectively
<i>My preference is .csv, because it can be read by almost any program.</i><p>Except the one most used for it: Excel. Excel sucks at csv, especially if the recipients have various internationalized versions. It can't deal properly with multi-line strings and spaces, but especially the internationalization is hell (semi-colons instead of commas, decimal separators, date formats).<p>Many times have I dealt with CSV-exports that could be read in any software except client's Excel versions.