- From: Gregg Kellogg <gregg@greggkellogg.net>
- Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2014 19:59:14 -0700
- To: Yakov Shafranovich <yakov-ietf@shaftek.org>
- Cc: W3C CSV on the Web Working Group <public-csv-wg@w3.org>
On Apr 7, 2014, at 7:34 PM, Yakov Shafranovich <yakov-ietf@shaftek.org> wrote:
> 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.
I would say LF or CRLF. LF is the Unix/Mac preference.
> 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.
Agreed, by definition, CSV uses comma (","). However, a parser should be able to take alternative characters for this, such as TAB, for example, deriving TSV. Obviously, semi-colon would also be useful.
Gregg
> Thanks,
> Yakov
>
Received on Tuesday, 8 April 2014 02:59:44 UTC