CSV report download contains "-" for every NULL

I try to download a report as a CSV file. In every field that contains NULL I get a minus sign ("-"). Is it possible to alter this behaviour so that it returns empty strings ("")?

Check Report Attributes > Layout and Pagination / Show Null Values As defaults to that character unless you set it to something else.

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