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The question is which is easier to muck up, as seen from my point of view: If the file is produced by (some version of) Excel, I can have a certain confidence that Excel has made a file according to its own format rules.

It is not for me: I can easily handle any .xls file or CSV file, as long as it is in the proper format. The issue is 'in the proper format. That you cannot assume from non-computerese people, editing CSV files.

Assuming CSV as an I/O format assumes that the (very unqualified) user knows all the conventions of character sets, quoting, all sorts of escapes even within the quoting rules, ... If I tell that 'primitive' to read his CSV file into Excel and give tat .xls file to me, the csv syntax, character encoding and escaping and syntax are checked before it reaches me.

I sure could take one of the umpteen CSV variants as inputs. Maybe I will at some future time. But what is in it for me? Will it give me any benefit, beyond that of the ability to handle input files any crazy format that might require me to do a lot of error handling and report processing?

Wouldn't I be better off assuming that an .xls(x) file honors the .xls(x) format, so that I do not have to worry about escapes and character sets and such things?
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