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Re:A love letter to the CSV format by pasc1878 on Thursday March 27, 2025 @07:26AM (#43492457)
The ASCII control characters do not appear well or are editable in a plain text editor.

I did always use TSV and I think the original use of CSV could have used that.

But TSV would still have many issues.

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Re:A love letter to the CSV format by solidsnack9000 on Thursday March 27, 2025 @11:24PM (#43501183)
What issues would TSV have? As commonly implemented (for example, the default output format of Postgres and MySQL), in TSV, tab and newline are escaped, not quoted.
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