What to set as mimetype for CSV files to open in spreadsheet applications

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My application lets users download their data as CSV files. These are supposed to open in spreadsheet applications. On a Linux system, I get prompted correctly to open with OpenOffice, but some of my users complain that when they download the file, it does not open automatically Excel, but asks them to choose the application. When they download a CSV from some other site, it opens correctly in Excel.

I am setting:
mimetype: text/csv
content_disposition: attachment; filename.csv

2 Answers

You can define the separator in first line of your CSV file using sep so that it appears as follows:

sep=;

See also @FilipNavara's answer.

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