If people used these for ASCII delimited text, they'd have to not use them for anything else, like some other text format otherwise you might insert an entire ASCII delimited file into a text field of that other thing and break that other thing's parsing. You couldn't even insert part of a file into a string field in another ASCII-delimited file. You only get to use them once so they wouldn't be part of general purpose plain text and an ASCII delimited file wouldn't be a plain text file that you could treat in the same way as other text files, so it's effectively a binary format or has restrictions on what text characters can appear in its records without escaping - oh no, that was its entire value proposition!
they break all the time,
whole point is to have less pain.
2 invisible ascii characters evidently no one's rlly used for anything else (other than nextvalue nextline) sounds like an order of magnitute less pain on parsing the escaped escapes along with the whole junk paste of llm generated markdown+code junk probably pasted in there.
You still have to escape the delimiters to be safe except now they're more rare so easier to forget about.
The bigger problem with CSV is all the inconsistent implementations. For example, some people want semicolons instead of commas because their culture uses commas as decimal points, so I suppose semicolon should really be the standard, if there was one.
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If people used these for ASCII delimited text, they'd have to not use them for anything else, like some other text format otherwise you might insert an entire ASCII delimited file into a text field of that other thing and break that other thing's parsing. You couldn't even insert part of a file into a string field in another ASCII-delimited file. You only get to use them once so they wouldn't be part of general purpose plain text and an ASCII delimited file wouldn't be a plain text file that you could treat in the same way as other text files, so it's effectively a binary format or has restrictions on what text characters can appear in its records without escaping - oh no, that was its entire value proposition!
they break all the time, whole point is to have less pain.
2 invisible ascii characters evidently no one's rlly used for anything else (other than nextvalue nextline) sounds like an order of magnitute less pain on parsing the escaped escapes along with the whole junk paste of llm generated markdown+code junk probably pasted in there.
You still have to escape the delimiters to be safe except now they're more rare so easier to forget about.
The bigger problem with CSV is all the inconsistent implementations. For example, some people want semicolons instead of commas because their culture uses commas as decimal points, so I suppose semicolon should really be the standard, if there was one.