On Mon, Oct 18, 2004 at 05:29:29PM -0700, Alexandre Julliard wrote:
Do you actually have an app that depends on this? I agree that in theory we should preserve the data exactly, but this means giving up on an easily editable registry format, so it should be done only if something really needs it.
What about supporting regular C escaping rules? It would be pretty consistent with the file format, and frankly I'd expect that to be supported (speaking as a Unix user). As for processing overhead, I'd be surprised if it shows on the radar.