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catmaid / CATMAID

Collaborative Annotation Toolkit for Massive Amounts of Image Data
https://catmaid.org
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Prefer TSV over CSV #2157

Open clbarnes opened 3 years ago

clbarnes commented 3 years ago

The default unit separator character in all exports should be tab (well, it should be ascii 31 but it's a bit late for that). It plays nicer with unix tools, commas occur frequently in names and annotations, and field quoting is handled inconsistently by downstream tools.

New tabular exports should only handle TSV; I recommend moving existing exports from CSV to TSV.

lalanti commented 3 years ago

I second this!

acardona commented 2 years ago

Looks like too many failures in MSExcel and Google Sheets? When quoted, which CATMAID's CSV file entries are, commas aren't an issue.

Tabs have the advantage that they aren't naturally used in names, and could even be actively replaced by a single space if present in any name to export.