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by kristopolous 814 days ago
If we are willing to throw away the comma, use the ASCII RS, record separator symbol. It's exactly what you want, even has a visual ␞ these days.

It's a problem solved decades ago with solutions we've failed to adopt. Weird, buggy, poorly parsable CSV is still somehow the norm.

Not saying you should, but if you want to change, the answer is already there. Change has to start somewhere...