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Why don't we use 0x1F (␟) instead of "," or TAB to separate units and 0x1E (␞) to separate records? It seems like half the problems with CSV were solved back i
by calibas 2y ago
Why don't we use 0x1F (␟) instead of "," or TAB to separate units and 0x1E (␞) to separate records?
It seems like half the problems with CSV were solved back in the 70s with ASCII codes.
- NikkiA 2y agoBecause nobody made keyboards with those keys. Had they stuck on a 'next unit' and 'next record' key pair that sent them, we'd all be fine, but instead we got overly redundant text editing keys rather than keyboards more suited to data entry.
- gaganyaan 2y agoSomebody went one step further and invented a format that uses the unicode codepoints as separators: https://github.com/SixArm/usv https://github.com/SixArm/usv