Newby - Problems exporting non-standard characters to .CSV or tab delimited

I am trying to export data from a table where many of the text fields contain non-standard characters like double quotes *["]* or *tabs*. If I *export to a .CSV* file, the embedded double quotes invariably foul up the alignment of the output columns and if I select a *tab delimited export*, the embedded tabs do the same thing.
Is there anyway that I can specify the text delimiter to use so that I can select a character that is not used in the text (like, for example the tilde *[*]*)?
I am using Discoverer 3.1
Thanks in advance

Hi,
With a complicated export requirement like this it is often better to create a calculation that returns the fields in the required format as a single column e.g.
col1||'~'||col2||'~'||col3
Then you can just export the report as a text and get all the fields with the correct separators and replaced characters.
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