Re:A love letter to the CSV format
by immibis on Thursday March 27, 2025 @06:49AM
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Graphical representations of the control characters begin at U+2400 in the "Control Pictures" Unicode block. Instead of the actual U+001E Record Separator, you put the U+241E Symbol for Record Separator in the help text.
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Re:A love letter to the CSV format
by mikepurvis on Thursday March 27, 2025 @09:15AM
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.... with a note underneath urging readers not to copy and paste the character because it's only the graphical representation of it, not the thing itself.
Perhaps a more salient example might be CSV nested in CSV. This happens all the time with XML (hello junit) and even JSON— when you plug a USB drive into my LG TV, it creates a metadata file on it that contains {"INFO":"{ \"thing\": true, <etc> }"}