Abridged timeline:
On Saturday, January 26, 2013 at 11:13 PM, Ori Livneh wrote:
I don't think means you have to ditch tabs -- I doubt there's a problem-free delimiter. But you should write code and configure software with the expectation that literal tabs will be encountered so that you can deal with it gracefully.
On Saturday, January 26, 2013 at 12:57 PM, Diederik van Liere wrote:
Now there could be a tab in a header value as well but I have never seen it in our logfiles and i also grepped for it on a couple of random files and found no such occurrences. So we are not going to escape tab characters in fields unless new information changes our mind.
On Sunday, January 27, 2013 at 5:07 AM, Erik Zachte wrote:
If we bet tabs will never be introduced in the input stream, even where they are legal, and we take that approach on several issues, one of those unlikely events will surely happen sooner than you think
On Monday, April 15, 2013 at 3:12 PM, David Schoonover wrote:
As a note, we *do* need to start escaping tabs. I've already encountered a small number in the mobile stream.