See the "Conventions for lossless conversion to TSV" on the current version of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tab-separated_values https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/

See the "Conventions for lossless conversion to TSV" on the current version of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tab-separated_values https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tab-separated_values . There are really only 3 chars to escape - the escape char, and 2 delimiters - to make everything easy to deal with (even binary data in fields - what "lossless" means here).