> but these specific characters are not text. they exist solely to be delimiters.
Even if people used them only for their intended purpose, someone could use them as delimiters within the text you want to store (e.g: list of tags in filename) - unless I'm misunderstanding.
> It would be like trying to escape a column in your spreadsheet.
Other formats do allow escaping their delimiters, so that you can use that character literally or even nest a string of that format within an entry.
