> There is no other valid use for them, so no escaping is necessary. Famous last words... > Have you ever used ASCII value 30 for anything, anywhere, in your

> There is no other valid use for them, so no escaping is necessary. Famous last words... > Have you ever used ASCII value 30 for anything, anywhere, in your life? No but if this format took off I would be. And then because text editors start displaying them so the files make sense, people start using them for other purposes, like separating values on a line or copying spreadsheet cells to the clipboard, because it's more "semantic", and those lines get pasted into a field in a tool that exports its data as CSV. What then?