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How does this improve on RFC 4180? (I only _wish_ excel and many other parsers behaved predictably like that RFC, but it is a decent proposal. ) ( https://www.

• geraldbauer 8y ago
  The [strict] RFC 4180 CSV Format memo is way too simplistic and "specifies" a format for machine-reading and writing. It's not a human csv format. What's human? It's a format that you hand edit and so on - thus, you want comments, blank lines, short cuts etc. Just for the record to quote from the memo: This memo provides information for the internet community. IT DOES NOT SPECIFY AN INTERNET STANDARD OF ANY KIND. IT DOES NOT SPECIFY AN INTERNET STANDARD OF ANY KIND. IT DOES NOT SPECIFY AN INTERNET STANDARD OF ANY KIND. Just repeating it three times in case you missed it, see https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc4180.txt https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc4180.txt