Hah! Wonderful example of a forgotten feature. It's not often that the tab delimited format is problematic, at least nothing that a simple string-replace opera

Hah! Wonderful example of a forgotten feature. It's not often that the tab delimited format is problematic, at least nothing that a simple string-replace operation can't solve, so it's not worth trying to convince every existing text reader and text processors to recognize these long forgotten record separators correctly instead.