Unicode Separated Values (USV)
Languages and libraries
data serialization format
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Using dedicated ASCII separator characters avoids escaping problems
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This is a great idea. I remember reading a blog entitled something like "ascii-separated values" as a replacement for CSV files. So I took another look at the ascii table...…
rhelz on HNThe central problem (I'd almost say the fatal mistake) of these formats is that the text we want to send is very likely to contain the characters used to delimit it. Like null…
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Historical ASCII control characters seen as rich and well designed
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Sure...and thanks again for writing up this spec. On the hardware, physical networking layer, ASCII gives us SYN, a synchronous idle, which is a bit pattern chosen to make it…
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Objections
Unicode lacks the compact elegance of ASCII control characters
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Sure...and thanks again for writing up this spec. On the hardware, physical networking layer, ASCII gives us SYN, a synchronous idle, which is a bit pattern chosen to make it…
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Alternatives named
Whitespace Separated Values (WSV)
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Also take a look at WSV: Whitespace Separated Values - https://youtu.be/mGUlW6YgHjE?t=436 - https://dev.stenway.com/WSV/ And related formats like OML: -…
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OML
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Also take a look at WSV: Whitespace Separated Values - https://youtu.be/mGUlW6YgHjE?t=436 - https://dev.stenway.com/WSV/ And related formats like OML: -…
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CSV
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This is a great idea. I remember reading a blog entitled something like "ascii-separated values" as a replacement for CSV files. So I took another look at the ascii table...…
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