> Escape processing would proceed as before, but the semantics would change to
> allow the use of different characters as the escape character, in addition
> to the special characters for delimiter and newline.
If you mean syntax to specify escape and delimiter (and newline ?),
that is a great addition, that imho all would like.
> Also, escape
> processing would be "false" as the default, so that the only special
> characters by default would be the newline and delimiter characters.
I don't see how that would be any advantage ? What is so wrong about having syntax to
choose no escape processing, like "escape ''" ?
Andreas