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Scary Formats

You know you’ve been hacking when you start to both hate and appreciate the intricacies of csv file field escaping because you’ve come to both hate and appreciate the intricacies of JSON’s UTF-8 encoding. Kids, don’t try to put a data format that’s hard to escape by itself inside another format that has, at best, loosely defined escaping mechanisms.

Two great tastes that taste horrible together.

But I did it all for the data, the data.

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