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> Escaping is too easy to ignore This is why we have editors that do syntax checking as we type. Editing CSV by hand is just not important enough for such edit
by slver 5y ago
> Escaping is too easy to ignore
This is why we have editors that do syntax checking as we type. Editing CSV by hand is just not important enough for such editors to be commonplace. CSV files are exported and imported.
And since we have JSON, whose spec is stable, known and at this point consistently implemented, CSV should really just be sun set rather than "fixed".
Also, the simplest escaping format is wrap in quotes and represent quotes by typing quotes twice. That's easy to remember and relatively hard to screw up even when editing by hand.