Re:Show HN: Comma Separated Values (CSV) to Unicode Separate...
by yewenjie on Tuesday March 12, 2024 @09:59AM
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I'm still confused whether this is a joke or not.
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Re:Show HN: Comma Separated Values (CSV) to Unicode Separate...
by romeoblade on Tuesday March 12, 2024 @10:05AM
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Apparently it is not. They have submitted it to the ietf. I will have to watch closely to see if librecalc/excel and languages/libraries adopt support. Seems like it does solve some common problems with CSV.
https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-unicode-separated-valu...
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-unicode-separated-val...
Re:Show HN: Comma Separated Values (CSV) to Unicode Separate...
by usrusr on Tuesday March 12, 2024 @10:30AM
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I certainly hope that anyone proposing a Unicode CSV variant as a joke would pick some raised hand emoji as the separator and the victory gesture (0xe011, also popular as an approximation of how an air quote emoji would look like) as the quote character.
But we already keep stumbling over missing support for the on-demand quote character even with separators like comma and tab, using more exotic characters as the separator will only make it worse. The value of less escaping is negative.
Re:Show HN: Comma Separated Values (CSV) to Unicode Separate...
by jefftk on Tuesday March 12, 2024 @10:04AM
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I don't think it's a joke; at https://github.com/sixarm/usv they discuss how they're working on IANA standardization.
Re:Show HN: Comma Separated Values (CSV) to Unicode Separate...
by knallfrosch on Tuesday March 12, 2024 @10:33AM
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Completely unreadable. Then again, Germans know the pain of decimal points.
We write 3.000,00 for exactly three thousand, instead of 3,000.00
Now imagine how often parsing breaks.
Re:Show HN: Comma Separated Values (CSV) to Unicode Separate...
by Ekaros on Tuesday March 12, 2024 @11:08AM
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Finland uses 3 000,00 which is also kinda pain to parse.
I think rarely used ' to group thousands is actually most sensible solution.
Re:Show HN: Comma Separated Values (CSV) to Unicode Separate...
by euroderf on Tuesday March 12, 2024 @02:31PM
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And now and then you encounter a web form in the .fi domain that rejects "," and expects ".", but does not tell you that that is the reason for rejecting your input. The web "designers" that deploy such crap in .fi should be sent to Siberia.