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I never use tab delimiters but thinking about it, it is much less common to encounter a tab character in a CSV field than a comma...
Tabs are also usually not allowed in many fields. The thing is, tab delimiters are fine, but the data sets often get stored without file extensions. Let me tell ya, I was the only person on staff to even know what a file extension was, let alone how to load it into software that can process tab delimiters!
Ugh. Bless you