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I don't see the semicolon separated CSV format going away. CSV is and will be a mess. The RFC should perhaps capture the current state of affairs, something l

• tinus_hn 10y ago
  If someone comes up with a clever alternative it'll be gone really quickly. Look at how quickly json caught on. CSV is easy to write and easy to parse if you only care about 90% of the use cases. If you need to do the other 10% it's much harder and you get a lot of interoperability problems. And that 10% is only becoming more important due to internationalization.