2016-02-17 14:02 GMT+01:00 Oliver Tonnhofer :
> RFC4180 allows newlines as long as they are inside of double quotes. This is
> at least supported by the Python and Go standard libraries, not sure how
> other software handles this.
Thanks, Oliver. That's correct.
I have to be more specific:
The A
Jeremy,
2016-02-17 11:48 GMT+01:00 Jeremy Palmer :
>> Allowing non-printable control-characters in strings makes it very
>> complicated and disables mainly all existing CSV software.
>
> Yes but Excel handles it. So does OGR and QGIS Delimited Text Provider.
> From memory the Microsoft ODBC CSV dr
We have all sorts or data within our fields, including pipe - think free
description text field where users cut and paste all sorts of stuff!
Cheers
Jeremy
> On 17/02/2016, at 11:58 PM, Johan Van de Wauw
> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Feb 17, 2016 at 11:31 AM, Stefan Keller wrote:
>> Hi Jeremy
>>
>>>
Hi Sfefan,
> On 17/02/2016, at 11:31 PM, Stefan Keller wrote:
>
> Hi Jeremy
>
> Semicolon is well supported in software.
> Tab is poorly supported in some text editors.
> Comma is heavy used in number values in european countries.
> What delimiter do you prefer and why?
>
Comma because it’s a we
Hi Jeremy
> However looking at the GeoCSV specification it would be a step
> backwards for our users due to the field delimiter being semicolon.
Semicolon is well supported in software.
Tab is poorly supported in some text editors.
Comma is heavy used in number values in european countries.
What
Hi Stefan,
Yes I’m aware of the GeoCSV specific and the implementation within OGR. We
actually support CSV+VRT from the NZ land data service:
https://data.linz.govt.nz/. When we did the implementation about 4 years ago I
don’t think your specification was around. I do like the simple approach o
Hi Jeremy
Thanks for the info.
I assume you are aware of GeoCSV and related software like the
well-known OGR (and the #TheShapefileChallenge ):
http://giswiki.hsr.ch/GeoCSV
:Stefan
2016-02-16 19:40 GMT+01:00 Jeremy Palmer :
> For forks that are interested W3C has setup a CSV on the Web Working
