How should I escape commas and speech marks in CSV files so they work in Excel?

Question

I\'m generating a CSV file (delimited by commas rather than tabs). My users will most likely open the CSV file in Excel by double clicking it. My data may contain commas and

Answer 1

Single quotes work fine too, even without escaping the double quotes, at least in Excel 2016:

'text with spaces, and a comma','more text with spaces','spaces and "quoted text" and more spaces','nospaces','NOSPACES1234'

Excel will put that in 5 columns (if you choose the single quote as "Text qualifier" in the "Text to columns" wizard)