[theanonymousone]

I fully agree that CSV is king and am quite happy about it. But the comma character was probably one of the worst choices they could make for the "standard", IMHO of course.

Tab makes far more sense here, because you are very likely able to just convert non-delimiter tabs to spaces without losing semantics.

Even considering how editors tend to mess with the tab character, there are still better choices based on frequency in typical text: |, ~, or even ;.

All IMHO, again.