A similar concept that is (IMHO) much nicer: RSV It doesn't need any escaping or quoting: a field just has to be valid UTF-8. The trick is that the delimiters

A similar concept that is (IMHO) much nicer: RSV It doesn't need any escaping or quoting: a field just has to be valid UTF-8. The trick is that the delimiters are bytes that are invalid UTF-8. The spec fits on a napkin, parsing is trivial, you can jump to the middle of a doc and find the nearest row, etc. Main downside is you need an editor/viewer that can handle it. https://github.com/Stenway/RSV-Specification https://github.com/Stenway/RSV-Specification