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0 pointsrietta2y ago0 comments

Localization is a thing. None of this is a show stopper. Subclasses and configuration screen for import and export.

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And then you get a business analyst at your client going "I just hit export in our internal tool, what's this delimiter that you're asking me about in the upload form? Google Sheets doesn't ask me to tell them that"

prepend2y ago

And how do you fix the “some analyst” problem? Is there a better format that reduces this problem?

SAI_Peregrinus2y ago

JSON? RON? Protobuf? Cap'n'Proto? Anything with more types than "string" which is all CSV has, and with an unambiguous data encoding. Preferably also a way to transmit the schema, since all of these formats (including CSV) have a schema but don't necessarily include it in the output.

About half the problems with CSV are due to encoding ambiguities, the other half are due to schema mismatches.

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Macha2y ago

prepend2y ago

And how do you fix the “some analyst” problem? Is there a better format that reduces this problem?

SAI_Peregrinus2y ago

About half the problems with CSV are due to encoding ambiguities, the other half are due to schema mismatches.

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