[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 136013] FILEOPEN Importing tsv/csv with no string delimiter causes whitespace only trailing column to corrupt

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=136013

--- Comment #7 from Eike Rathke <erack at redhat.com> ---
(In reply to xpusostomos from comment #6)
> Another thing, it wasn't obvious to me in the gui that the string delimited
> dropdown list was editable. I think a dropdown list here is pointless and
> distracting. Everyone uses either double quote or nothing.
You certainly know everyone and every usage and can be sure no one, absolutely
no one, uses anything else.

> I would argue
> that as soon as you select tab delimited, this field should default to
> blank, because as far as I can tell, the whole internet is agreed that TSV
> files don't have a string quote character.
Oh yes? Is it? Could you point out such agreement? So you'd argue that embedded
tabs and embedded line feeds are not possible at all in a TSV file?

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