Proposed changes for RFC 4180

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

Received on Tuesday, 8 April 2014 02:35:53 UTC