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Re:A love letter to the CSV format by thesuitonym on Wednesday March 26, 2025 @03:15PM (#43485846)
> If there were visible well known characters that could be printed...

...There would be datasets that include those characters, and so they wouldn't be as useful for record separators. Look into your heart and know it to be true.

Re:A love letter to the CSV format by jandrese on Wednesday March 26, 2025 @05:22PM (#43487456)
I wouldn't feel too bad about blindly scrubbing those characters out of inputs unlike commas, tabs, and quotes.