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oleibman 981d429630 Make Reader/Csv Easily Extendable
Fix #4836, an issue which I was about to dismiss out-of-hand, but I decided that we could and should be making it a bit easier for our users to avoid problems. To that end, I have changed most of the private properties in Reader/Csv from `private` to `protected`. This allows users to extend the class easily; it is a better option than the existing `constructorCallback` - less awkward, not reliant on static settings, etc. (I know more now than I did when I introduced it.) Taking advantage of the new extendability, a new class `Reader\CsvNoEscape` is added which forces the use of null-string as the escape character, and prevents the use of auto-detection of Mac line-endings; both of these are schedule for removal with Php9.
This actually makes `CsvNoEscape` a better option than `Csv`;
it should probably be used for all new development.

Because `IOFactory` is heavily used for loading files, it has some changes to better accommodate `CsvNoEscape` (and other classes). In particular, methods `createReader`, `load`, `identify`, and `createReaderForFile` now allow a new `mergeArray` parameter, where that parameter is merged with the static `IOFactory::$readers` array when deciding on a Reader class to be used. This allows the user to override the default Csv Reader, without having to change a static array, and without affecting IOFactory's ability to find other matching readers if no suitable entry is found in `mergeArray`.
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