On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 6:30 PM, Ori Livneh ori@wikimedia.org wrote:
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.
:) Erik just leveled up his future-telling powers