CSV if you do it as in RFC 4180 [1] already has everything the link describes, plus pretty good interoperability with most things out there. If you abused CSV y

CSV if you do it as in RFC 4180 [1] already has everything the link describes, plus pretty good interoperability with most things out there. If you abused CSV you could even store binary data, while ASCII has no standard way to escape the delimiter characters. 1: http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4180 http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4180