Re: [RFC] Kill proprietary CSV escaping mechanism
| From: | Pierre Joye | Date: | Sun, 30 Sep 2018 04:06:59 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: [RFC] Kill proprietary CSV escaping mechanism | ||
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Hi Stas
On Fri, Sep 28, 2018, 2:00 PM Stanislav Malyshev <smalyshev@gmail.com>
wrote:
> Hi!
>
> > I hereby put the “Kill proprietary CSV escaping mechanism” under
> discussion:
> >
> > <https://wiki.php.net/rfc/kill-csv-escaping>
>
> For fputcsv (and generally writing) this is probably OK. I am much more
> concerned about reading - this may make files generated by PHP be
> unreadable by php. And some use cases keep archives for a very long
> time. Trying to find something in a backup and discovering that your
> code is not longer able to read your data is no fun.
This is a very good point. Removing it in read mode is going to break
things badly out there (I had a few projects using it. We need a sensible
decision here.
best,
Pierre