Hi Carol, I used to struggle mightily with these issues, too. Then, I realized that I can do all my formatting in html, and excel will "get it." In other words, dump the whole error.diagnostics into one <td></td> and it will show up in one column, regardless of whether or not there are weird characters. (You may span rows, though.)
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