SYLK (Symbolic Link) format- this text format is used to exchange data between applications, specifically spreadsheets. Files of SYLK have «.slk» extension. Microsoft does not publish a SYLK specification, therefore work with this format in different applications can be different.
Notice. A
SYLK file can
be written in Unicode and read by some applications but anyway many
applications which do support Unicode writes SYLK files into ANSI
but not Unicode. Therefore, symbols which do not have
representation in the system code page will be written as ('?')
symbols.