Fair point. But the vast majority of programming tools do already handle UFT8 text (although perhaps don't do a great job with US/RS characters). also you coul

Fair point. But the vast majority of programming tools do already handle UFT8 text (although perhaps don't do a great job with US/RS characters). also you could write an efficient parser for US/RS separated data in 5 minutes. For parquet you would have to integrate with a library (with all it's dependencies and design choices) or spend days writing your own parser.