CSV for sure requires a convention to be shared between the producer and the consumer of the data. Once you have that I don't think you will need to deal with t

CSV for sure requires a convention to be shared between the producer and the consumer of the data. Once you have that I don't think you will need to deal with this problem. To be honest, what I didn't like is the tone of the article. It is just that this statement is wrong: "But the problem is that CSV isn't really a well defined file format with a well defined syntax." There is RFC 4180.