Yes, that's how they're supposed to be. Any field with quotes, or commas, or newlines in the data needs to have quotes around it. Any quotes in the data need to be escaped by preceding them with another quote.
Re:CSV as a Data Source
by justinator on Thursday August 01, 2013 @03:31PM
(#6142857)
From what I understand, you're basically right, but you're basically right only in a sense that that's what most people do. There's no "CSV Data Format" spec. It's all just what most people agree on, most of the time. Unless someone has another idea.
Re:CSV as a Data Source
by steveklabnik on Thursday August 01, 2013 @04:18PM
(#6143178)
text/csv is defined in RFC 4180: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4180
Strictly, the definition in RFC 4180 mandates ASCII which makes it unusable for many purposes. I guess there's nothing practical stopping you from using another encoding though.
Re:CSV as a Data Source
by steveklabnik on Thursday August 01, 2013 @07:29PM
(#6144337)
> Common usage of CSV is US-ASCII, but other character sets defined
> by IANA for the "text" tree may be used in conjunction with the
> "charset" parameter.
https://www.iana.org/assignments/character-sets/character-se...
col1,col2,col3,"Longer data and somethin ""with"" quotes",col5