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A comment on ASCII and Unicode quotation marks. Parent comment

Re:ASCII and Unicode quotation marks by slavik81 on Wednesday September 13, 2017 @09:15PM (#15244235)
Sadly, eventually someone will want to enter one document as a field in another document and then you end up needing escaping anyways. Using a rare symbol for the delimiter would still be nice for typing documents by hand, but it would have to be available on modern keyboards to be convenient.
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Re:ASCII and Unicode quotation marks by coldtea on Thursday September 14, 2017 @05:30AM (#15246255)
>Sadly, eventually someone will want to enter one document as a field in another document and then you end up needing escaping anyways.

Yes, but CSV files are record collections, they are not in 99% of cases recursive like that.

If a column contains escaped secondary documents, there's something wrong.

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