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it will also be at least 2x bigger on disk for no reason.

• Pxtl 5y ago
  Your data must be very sparse or include a lot of escape chars for that. I've seen a lot of CSV where everything is quoted, meaning that the cell separator is effectively "," which is only one character less than <td> and still beats the pants off of JSON or XML. imho, it would be a good compromise, in that there's already partial tooling and GUI support.
  • prepend 5y ago
    But usually it will be 1 character vs 4. So that adds a lot of space that doesn’t add much value. It’s also harder to read.
    • Pxtl 5y ago
      I would say invisible control characters would be even harder to read.
      • hermitcrab 5y ago
        US and RS characters are visible in some editors, e.g. Notepad++.