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Re:So you want to write your own CSV code (2014) by barbegal on Friday May 15, 2020 @07:16AM (#23190844)
I think that stems from the fact that no software ever properly supported them, they are non-printable characters so you can't see them easily. Whereas with CSV you can fire up notepad.exe and explore the data.

Given the inability to standardise on line endings "\n" "\r\n" or "\r" I don't think we can standardise on using unit or record separators

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Re:So you want to write your own CSV code (2014) by tinus_hn on Friday May 15, 2020 @07:40AM (#23191008)
No, we certainly can’t expect people to use the ASCII ‘Record separator’ character as a record separator, that would be madness!
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Re:So you want to write your own CSV code (2014) by mark-r on Friday May 15, 2020 @11:59AM (#23193697)
Have you ever seen the ASCII separator characters used as they were intended? I don't think I have. It's obvious the problem they were trying to solve, but it was too little too late. It doesn't help that they're control characters that aren't meant to be displayed so they're practically invisible.
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