How much speed are you willing to sacrifice for a new feature?

As much as it takes, ’cause I need the damn feature! ☺

IMHO, a modern CSV parser must be able to parse Unicode text encoded in any Unicode character encoding scheme and with any arbitrary Unicode characters (code points, or even <gulp> extended grapheme clusters) used for CSV metacharacters. And it must properly handle the Unicode byte order mark as prescribed by the Unicode Standard.

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In the case of the Concordance DAT file, the sep_char separator character, U+0014, is encoded in one byte in UTF-8:  "\x14". It's the quote_char quote character (and consequently also the escape_char quote escape character), U+00FE, that happens to be encoded in two bytes in UTF-8:  "\xC3\xBE".

Jim

In reply to Re^2: Speeds vs functionality by Jim
in thread Speeds vs functionality by Tux

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