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by jstimpfle 2460 days ago
It's not my statement, and also please let's not split hairs but look at the actual situation in practice. (Also, RFC-4180 sucks. It only codifies a subset of existing - bad - practice).
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Apologies for the misattribution.

The situation in practice is that when people want a “standard” way to do CSV, there is in fact a standard they can use, that does cover most sensible things you’ll want to do with CSV, and addresses the most common corner cases (eg delimeter in field) in a fairly sensible way.

You are free yet to make whatever proprietary extensions or otherwise, at the risk of losing compatibility just as you are with any other standard.