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The IANA standard for TSV files [1] bans tab characters inside of fields. It's a convenient assumption, so if I'm writing a quick way to sync some data to disk,
by medstrom 6y ago
The IANA standard for TSV files [1] bans tab characters inside of fields. It's a convenient assumption, so if I'm writing a quick way to sync some data to disk, I choose TSV because the functions can be simpler.
https://www.iana.org/assignments/media-types/text/tab-separated-values https://www.iana.org/assignments/media-types/text/tab-separa...
- mFixman 6y agoTo this day I don't understand why standard table formats don't use the standard ASCII unit and record separators. They are there, they are convenient, and they don't require any visible character sacrifices.
- marcthe12 6y agoI gues lack of program support. But yeas. That would have been great