> > > Or we could kill both issues by hard-wiring the separator as ','.
+1 I've never encountered a situation where a customer wanted a custom delimiter AND quoted strings. So either they wanted pure CSV or a customed TSV. Could we have another output type called "separated" that uses the existing --fieldsep / --recordsep? Word will get out that csv is faster, but we'd still have the flexibility if somebody really wanted it.