- From: Yakov Shafranovich <yakov-ietf@shaftek.org>
- Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2014 22:34:55 -0400
- To: W3C CSV on the Web Working Group <public-csv-wg@w3.org>
I am working on an updated draft of this RFC. I have the following changes so far: 1. Default charset should be changed to UTF-8 in light of RFC 6657. 2. Allow lines to end with CR, or CRLF. 3. Deprecate the optional "header" parameter since it is not being used, and may possibly be replaced with whatever metadata standard comes out of this group. 4. Allow escaping via backslashes in addition to "". Obvious question is how to distinguish between which method is being used. 5. Add references to the work being produced by this group. Regarding the use commas to separate columns vs. semicolons in countries where the comma is used for decimal points, I am hesitant to make that change since that would no longer make these "CSV" files. Thanks, Yakov
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