[harelba]

Hi, q's creator here,

Any kind of input/output delimiter is supported (-d <delim> and -D <delim>), and also multiple encodings (-e <encoding>). Also, q performs automatic type inference over the actual data.

Encoding autodetection and fixed width files are not supported though.

[barrkel]

The company I work for also does delimiter autodetection, quote character inference (from a limited set), and encoding inference (which is mostly limited to utf8 / windows-1252 / iso-8859-15, but it can't reliably differentiate latter two).