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This was requested by a potential user, as they want to be able to do whatever they want to do to these lists with a spreadsheet. In fact, they requested to be able to export to CSV, but, as always, using CSV is a minefield because of Microsoft: since their Excel product is fucking unable to write and read CSV from different locales, even if using the same exact Excel product, i can not also create a CSV file that is guaranteed to work on all locales. If i used the non-standard sep=; thing to tell Excel that it is a fucking stupid application, then proper applications would show that line as a row, which is the correct albeit undesirable behaviour. The solution is to use a spreadsheet file format that does not have this issue. As far as I know, by default Excel is able to read XLSX and ODS files, but i refuse to use the artificially complex, not the actually used in Excel, and lobbied standard that Microsoft somehow convinced ISO to publish, as i am using a different format because of the mess they made, and i do not want to bend over in front of them, so ODS it is. ODS is neither an elegant or good format by any means, but at least i can write them using simple strings, because there is no ODS library in Debian and i am not going to write yet another DEB package for an overengineered package to write a simple table—all i want is to say “here are these n columns, and these m columns; have a good day!”. Part of #51.