BUG: Preserve case inside quoted CSS values to fix Excel number-format literal lowercasing (closes #63101) #63117
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This PR fixes Issue #63101, where Styler.to_excel() incorrectly lowercased characters inside Excel number-format literals. Because Excel custom number formats are case-sensitive, this caused formats such as number-format: #,,"M"; to become #,,"m"; when written to the XLSX file. The resulting entry in styles.xml was sometimes valid but semantically wrong, and in some cases (depending on user CSS input) produced malformed XML that triggered Excel’s content-recovery warning.
Fixes implemented:
The CSS parsing logic in pandas/io/formats/css.py lowercased all CSS values unconditionally via .lower(). This behavior is correct for CSS identifiers (e.g., colors, keywords), but incorrect for: