Define escapeChar in CSV Dialect

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Define escapeChar in CSV Dialect #884

Closed nichtich closed 2 months ago

nichtich commented 4 months ago

The current specification

escapeChar - specifies a one-character string to use for escaping (for example, \), mutually exclusive with quoteChar. Not set by default

does not tell what to expect when escapeChar is set. Will setting it to \ make all sequences of \ followed by another character be escape sequences? What is \x escaped to? How about \ at the end of a string?

I guess implementations can give an answer but it needs to be told in the spec as well.

roll commented 2 months ago

Fixed in https://datapackage.org/specifications/table-dialect/ (we cannot update CSVDialect itself as we're not releasing a new version of it)