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From what I understand, you're basically right, but you're basically right only in a sense that that's what most people do. There's no "CSV Data Format" spec. I
by justinator 13y ago
From what I understand, you're basically right, but you're basically right only in a sense that that's what most people do. There's no "CSV Data Format" spec. It's all just what most people agree on, most of the time. Unless someone has another idea.
- steveklabnik 13y agotext/csv is defined in RFC 4180: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4180 https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4180
- nemetroid 13y agoStrictly, the definition in RFC 4180 mandates ASCII which makes it unusable for many purposes. I guess there's nothing practical stopping you from using another encoding though.
- steveklabnik 13y ago> Common usage of CSV is US-ASCII, but other character sets defined > by IANA for the "text" tree may be used in conjunction with the > "charset" parameter. http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc6657.txt http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc6657.txt https://www.iana.org/assignments/character-sets/character-sets.xhtml https://www.iana.org/assignments/character-sets/character-se...