#2396: proposal to rename v.in.ascii/v.out.ascii to v.in.text/v.out.text (or
similar)
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Reporter: mlennert | Owner: grass-dev@…
Type: enhancement | Status: new
Priority: blocker | Milestone: 7.0.0
Component: Vector | Version: svn-releasebranch70
Keywords: ascii, API change | Platform: Unspecified
Cpu: Unspecified |
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Comment(by mlennert):
Replying to [comment:2 hamish]:
> meh, I'm not in favor of this. ASCII is the one universal format which
has survived for decades and is exactly known and described. "text" is...
um, a Word document? a pdf? an image scan of observer logs? who knows..?
>
One could argue, though, that v.in.ascii is the wrong (and thhus
confusing) name since you can import files which are in different
encodings than ASCII. But I agree that 'text' is not necessarily clearer.
Maybe v.in.delimitedtext ?
Moritz
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