On Tue, Sep 15, 2020 at 06:43:11PM +0100, Jonathan Matthews wrote: > On Tue, 15 Sep 2020 at 16:42, Tim Düsterhus <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Why not use the Tab (0x09) as separator and make the output a proper TSV? > > > I’m only 2% joking when I point out that ASCII already has single-byte > inter-field and inter-record delimiters defined, just waiting to be used > ... :-) > > https://ronaldduncan.wordpress.com/2009/10/31/text-file-formats-ascii-delimited-text-not-csv-or-tab-delimited-text/ > > http://html-codes.info/ascii/standard/What-is-the-ASCII-value-of-record%20separator_30 >
The problem with this is that it's not human readable since this is a non-printable character. I prefer to keep it simple. -- William Lallemand
