2014-03-28 15:15 GMT+01:00 Gary Gregory <garydgreg...@gmail.com>:

> On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 5:09 AM, Benedikt Ritter <brit...@apache.org>
> wrote:
>
> > 2014-03-27 17:28 GMT+01:00 sebb <seb...@gmail.com>:
> >
> > > On 27 March 2014 15:49, Gary Gregory <garydgreg...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > FYI:
> > > >
> > > > Has anyone seen this?
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
> >
> https://ronaldduncan.wordpress.com/2009/10/31/text-file-formats-ascii-delimited-text-not-csv-or-tab-delimited-text/
> > > >
> > > > It actually makes sense. Good luck editing such files though...
> > >
> > > Yes, how is one supposed to create them?
> > >
> > > I think those ASCII characters were used quite a lot in the early days
> > > of teletypes which had the appropriate keys.
> > > Also they were used in some serial line protocols.
> > >
> > > But of course once people needed to send binary data, escape codes or
> > > encoding had to be used.
> > >
> > > > I wonder if we should add a built-in format for this format?
> > >
> > > Are there (m)any files that use the format?
> > >
> > > Otherwise why bother ...
> > >
> >
> > I don't see this as a requirement for 1.0. Additional formats can easily
> > added in 1.1. Or does the API have to be changed to include this format?
> >
>
>
> IMO, this can be implemented now with a custom CSVFormat like any other
> format.
>
> The min level question is whether *we* should include a CSVFormat.ASCII
> constant.
>

not in 1.0


>
> The max level question is, as outlined in the blog, because that makes
> processing simpler, we should refactor our code to know about certain kinds
> of format where escaping is superfluous. This refactoring could require
> visible changes, or not, who knows.
>

since nobody know, I'll say release early, release often. We'll find out
after 1.0.


>
> But this is not 1.0 blocker.
>

Agreed.


>
> Gary
>
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> >
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