[asssslay]

Disabling quoting can turn one field into several fields or records. This follows the requested alternative in #558: restore the previous disabled-quote behavior and make relaxed quotes an explicit relax_quotes option, defaulting to false.

With relax_quotes: true, interior quotes stay unchanged in unquoted fields. Fields containing delimiters, record delimiters, or leading quotes still receive enclosing quotes and normal escaping. Leading quotes after whitespace are also enclosed so a parser using trim does not mistake them for the start of a quoted field. Explicit quoting selectors continue to take precedence.

const options = { relax_quotes: true };
const text = 'say "hi",plain\n"a,b","a\nb"\n';
const records = parse(text, options);
const output = stringify(records, options);

assert.deepEqual(parse(output, options), records);
assert.equal(output, text);

The normal RFC 4180 quoting behavior remains the default. Relaxed output requires the matching parser option. The option is available in TypeScript and field-level cast settings, with a sample showing which fields remain enclosed. Generated distributions are left to the release build process.