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That already exists -- TSV. You disallow the tab metacharacter.

Then I don't understand. Like the sibling comment said the really "problematic" character in TSV is the line feed. But a tab can occur as well.

The format that I described does not already exist in the form of TSV. And further based on your original comment I would have thought that both TSV and this format would be discarded as not-useful.

And the newline character. Both of which commonly occur in normal text.

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