I don't see any real advantage over using ASCII unit and record separators (.asv). Also I am not convinced about the need for an escape character. If you reall

I don't see any real advantage over using ASCII unit and record separators (.asv). Also I am not convinced about the need for an escape character. If you really need to use ASCII unit or record separators as data - tough use a different format. If only editors would display the ASCII unit separator (Notepad++ does) and treat the ASCII record as a carriage return (Notepad++ doesn't) then .asv format would be a huge improvement on CSV.