On Fri, Mar 9, 2018 at 12:42 PM, Daniel Verite <dan...@manitou-mail.org> wrote:
> I wrote: > > > recordsep in the unaligned mode doesn't play the role of a line ending > > because the last line is not finished by recordsep. According to the > source > >code, this is intended, see print_unaligned_text() in print.c: > > Something else comes to mind: CSV allows linefeeds inside fields, and > we don't want to replace these with record separators. > So the notion that recordsep can be used to choose line endings > is even less okay than if there was just the last line issue. > > I'm not following - if recordsep is not something that would interpreted as a newline then the file we output would have not structural newlines. It might have data newlines but those would be quoted. David J.
