[BUG] TW uses invalid text/tab-delimited-values - It needs to be text/tab-separated-values

[pmario]

• related to CSV parser improvements #7042

In PR #7042 the TW type: text/tab-delimited-values is defined -> This is wrong.

The real type is text/tab-separated-values -- See:

• https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc4180.html#page-2 and
• https://www.iana.org/assignments/media-types/media-types.xhtml (search for tab-separated/values)

@EvidentlyCube @Jermolene -- I think this needs to be fixed.

[EvidentlyCube]

I can make a quick PR but I just need to know - do we need to also keep the old tab-delimited-values? I don't fully remember how parsers work in TW

[pmario]

@Jermolene -- Do we need to keep the wrong one? It has not been documented. So it basically should not be used too much.

What do you think?

[Jermolene]

Hi @pmario the situation seems to be ambiguous. I found a reference to text/tab-delimited-values in https://www.w3.org/TR/tabular-metadata/ suggesting that while it may not be the current best practice it was at some point in the past. I think the way forward is to add text/tab-separated-values alongside the existing types.