[Bug 37268] New: When importing from commandline, wine's regedit gives error "Warning! Unrecognized escape sequence"

https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=37268

Bug ID: 37268
           Summary: When importing from commandline, wine's regedit gives
                    error "Warning! Unrecognized escape sequence"
           Product: Wine
           Version: 1.7.26
          Hardware: x86
                OS: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: -unknown
          Assignee: [e-mail]
          Reporter: [e-mail]

I'm trying to get Adobe CS4 to work under wine 1.7.26 (compiled from GIT with
MSI patch from bug #18070. I can get the installer to work, and it runs mostly,
but some components don't install (like Photoshop). Unsure why. Figured I would
just copy from a Windows install, and import registry settings saved from said
Windows install (XP). Saved all the Adobe-related keys from Windows to a .REG
file (about 4 MB) and attemptted to import, but wine regedit throws
"unrecognized escape sequence" errors and the keys are not imported. And yes, I
read bug #4495 and I believe this is a different issue.

I can attach the .REG file in question if anybody wants to see it.

[Bug 37268] When importing from commandline, wine's regedit gives error "Warning! Unrecognized escape sequence"

https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=37268

[e-mail] changed:

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--- Comment #1 from [e-mail] ---
Well you should attach the registery. Can you somehow do difference check with
some program how different they are?

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Seann  changed:

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--- Comment #2 from Seann  ---
Created attachment 49568
  --> https://bugs.winehq.org/attachment.cgi?id=49568
Adobe CS4 Registry from WinXP Machine (Zipped)

.REG file was too big. Had to ZIP it down.

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--- Comment #3 from Seann  ---
Created attachment 49574
  --> https://bugs.winehq.org/attachment.cgi?id=49574
REG files from Clean Install of CS4 in both XP & WINE

I performed a clean install of CS4 on XP, and dumped the reg entries. I also
created a clean prefix and did the same in WINE. I used the same Windows
Utility to create the registry dumps from XP and WINE, and have zipped both
files together (named accordingly) in this attachment. I have tried importing
both and I get the same errors from both files:

Warning! Unrecognized escape sequence: \P'
regedit: warning: unrecognized line: '"C:\Program Files\Common
Files\Adobe\Installers\d2f336b2c5feeb945c28b7a0a45170f\RegLoc\ar_AE"='

The problem as I see it is that Windows has no problem with things like this:

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Control
Panel\Extended Properties{305CA226-D286-468e-B848-2B2E8E697B74} 2]
"C:\Program Files\Common Files\Adobe\Adobe Version Cue
CS4\Server\bin\VersionCueCS4.cpl"=dword:00000003

But wine doesn't like single back-slashes. And if I convert each single
instance of \ to \ I mess up the registry key.

[Bug 37268] When importing from commandline, wine's regedit gives error "Warning! Unrecognized escape sequence"

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--- Comment #4 from Seann  ---
On XP, I used WinMerge and I looked at both files side by side. Aside from
minor differences caused by the failure of certain apps to install on Wine, the
keys in question are all the same on both WINE and XP.

[Bug 37268] When importing from commandline, wine's regedit gives error "Warning! Unrecognized escape sequence"

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--- Comment #5 from Bruno Jesus  ---
Can you please export a single of this very long field names using regedit,
please? I would just like to confirm that regedit will also not escape the
field names.

[Bug 37268] When importing from commandline, wine's regedit gives error "Warning! Unrecognized escape sequence"

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--- Comment #6 from Seann  ---
Created attachment 49868
  --> https://bugs.winehq.org/attachment.cgi?id=49868
Requested Key

[Bug 37268] When importing from commandline, wine's regedit gives error "Warning! Unrecognized escape sequence"

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--- Comment #7 from Bruno Jesus  ---
Thank you. I don't really understand why windows exported the line twice, the
second line is totally broken =)

As you can see the regedit exported version has \. If I change any of the \
to \ windows will also ignore the line and so will wine.

My current guess is that the software you used to export the registry has a
bug.

[Bug 37268] When importing from commandline, wine's regedit gives error "Warning! Unrecognized escape sequence"

https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=37268

--- Comment #8 from Seann  ---
I know the second line is broken (which I was curious about), but I used
Microsoft's own Regedit on the original XP install to do the export. Importing
it back worked on Windows again with Microsoft's own REGEDIT.EXE but not on
WINE with WINE's regedit. That's why I opened this ticket. I didn't use any
third party applications when working with the regisrty entries. Strictly XP's
out-of-the-box stuff, and the same with WINE.

[Bug 37268] When importing from commandline, wine's regedit gives error "Warning! Unrecognized escape sequence"

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--- Comment #9 from Bruno Jesus  ---
The files you attached have the header:

3 ; File created by TBackupManager
    4 ; Component version: 1.5
    5 ; Component used by: jv16 PowerTools 2014
    6 ; Program version: 3.2.0.1354
    7 ; File Description:
    8 ; Date: 14.09.2014
    9 ; Time: 21:29:14

A registry line is composed by the name and value. This program will correctly
escape the value but not the name, so when imported in windows or wine the line
gets ignored.

Comment 6 file is imported correctly in wine for me.

[Bug 37268] When importing from commandline, wine's regedit gives error "Warning! Unrecognized escape sequence"

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--- Comment #10 from Bruno Jesus  ---
(In reply to Bruno Jesus from comment #9)
> A registry line is composed by the name and value. This program will
> correctly escape the value but not the name, so when imported in windows or
> wine the line gets ignored.

By "the program" I mean TBackupManager.

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--- Comment #11 from Bruno Jesus  ---
Created attachment 49869
  --> https://bugs.winehq.org/attachment.cgi?id=49869
Invalid reg file

This is the example I tried in both wine and XP and it fails in both (XP will
say success but the key will not be created).

[Bug 37268] When importing from commandline, wine's regedit gives error "Warning! Unrecognized escape sequence"

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--- Comment #12 from Seann  ---
Wow. I'm an idiot. I've been trying so many different things, I think I've
forgotten my own name at some point! I guess we can close this then!

Then I need to lodge a bug report with "jv16 PowerTools 2014" I guess.

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Bruno Jesus  changed:

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--- Comment #13 from Bruno Jesus  ---
Resolving invalid then.

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Austin English  changed:

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--- Comment #14 from Austin English  ---
Closing.