Description: CSV files saved by Calc on *nix systems save with line feeds all by their lonesome. From https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4180: "Each record is located on a separate line, delimited by a line break (CRLF)." Steps to Reproduce: 1. Enter some data in a new Calc document, or open any spreadsheet containing static data on a single sheet. 2. Save as CSV. Actual Results: The resulting CSV file's line breaks consist of LF characters. Expected Results: The resulting CSV file's line breaks consist of CRLF sequences. Reproducible: Always User Profile Reset: No Additional Info: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/65.0.3325.181 Safari/537.36
From the same source and same paragraph there, "While there are various specifications and implementations for the CSV format (for ex. [4], [5], [6] and [7]), there is no formal specification in existence, which allows for a wide variety of interpretations of CSV files. " But you are right, that there should be an additional option in the save as dialog to choose the record delimiter. Such wish is already tracked in bug 59041. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 59041 ***