Quote ASCII format differently #1075
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`qsv fmt --ascii` uses the ASCII unit separator (U+001F) as the record *delimiter* and the ASCII record separator (U+001E) as the record *terminator*. The point is to use metacharacters that don’t appear in regular ASCII text; these characters are neither part of the printable character subset, nor the whitespace control codes. But it still uses `"` as the quote character. That means that data that contains quotes will need to be quoted using this printable character. All metacharacters (delimiter, terminator, and quote) being non-whitespace control codes would enable you to write out any regular text (printable character or whitespace) without “quotations”. Use the control code ASCII “Substitute” (U+001A) as the quote character. Fixes: dathere#1074
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qsv fmt --asciiuses the ASCII unit separator (U+001F) as the record delimiter and the ASCII record separator (U+001E) as the record terminator. The point is to use metacharacters that don’t appear in regular ASCII text; these characters are neither part of the printable character subset, nor the whitespace control codes.But it still uses
"as the quote character. That means that data that contains quotes will need to be quoted using this printable character.All metacharacters (delimiter, terminator, and quote) being non-whitespace control codes would enable you to write out any regular text (printable character or whitespace) without “quotations”.
Use the control code ASCII “Substitute” (U+001A) as the quote character.
Fixes: #1074