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Right, but the original point I was responding to is that control characters are disallowed in the data and therefore don't need to be escaped. If you're going
by mjw_byrne 2y ago
Right, but the original point I was responding to is that control characters are disallowed in the data and therefore don't need to be escaped. If you're going to have an escaping mechanism then you can use "normal" characters like comma as delimiters, which is better because they can be read and written normally.
- thayne 2y agoBut a comma is much more likely to need to be escaped.
- mjw_byrne 2y agoIt's good for a delimiter to be uncommon in the data, so that you don't have to use your escaping mechanism too much. This is a different thing altogether from using "disallowed" control characters, which is an attempt to avoid escaping altogether - an attempt which I was arguing is doomed to fail.