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It's an editor issue then. "Back in the old days", people used to understand how to input ^A and ^B. Showing these characters is also only a mere addition in the character set. Sure, there is inertia to change, but even rich text format is/was supported by windows.

Being unable to deal with this is a lazyness of the developer that spilled into the user being unable to deal with it. This is nothing a user can't be trained on, and I'd argue it makes more sense than weird escaping sequences in the event you actually do want a ",".

P.S.: But then again, with proper editors the escaping issue vanishes - and no, I do not mean IDE's. Lots of people decided it was worth it to support rtf, I figure the decision to support 2 additional characters is way easier in a user friendly way.