Parsing the Infamous Japanese Postal CSV (2020)
31 points by lim
31 points by lim
Friendly reminder to always put a comma into your passwords, so that when your password is stolen the corresponding CSV dump will most likely be corrupted.
“It’s a CSV, how hard could it be?”
the actual CSV doesn't quote fields and instead uses a different kind of comma
“Oh.”
I thought that was still somewhat manageable. I was more shocked when I read:
Specifically, if the neighborhood name is over 38 characters, or if the half-width katakana pronunciation field is over 76 characters, the line will be split into two lines. The overly-long neighborhood field will be continued and all other fields will be duplicated.
Why? Just... Why....?