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There is a lot not to like about CSV, for all the reasons given here. The only real positive is that you can easily create, read and edit CSV in an editor.

Personally I think we missed a trick by not using the ASCII US and RS characters:

Columns separated by \u001F (ASCII unit separator).

Rows separated by \u001E (ASCII record separator).

No escaping needed.

More about this at:

https://successfulsoftware.net/2022/04/30/why-isnt-there-a-d...

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Good idea, but probably a non-starter due to no keyboard keys for those characters. Even | would've been a better character to use since it almost never appears in common data.

It is probably unrealistic to expect keyboard keyboard vendors to add new keys. But editors could support adding them through keyboard shortcuts (Ctrl + something).

Pipe can be useful as a field delimiter. But what do you use as the record delimiter?

Welp, now I know my weekend project.

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