The spec says that pad characters are removed before escape scheme processing.

However, in delimited context, I can't even determine the length of the field to trim off the padding unless I can do the escape scheme processing.

This is either a Chicken-Egg, or the algorithm for parsing is substantially more complex due to padding.

Comments?

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