Fix for bug 824 - proper handling of REG_MULTI_SZ

Dimitrie O. Paun dpaun at rogers.com
Fri Oct 22 08:56:33 CDT 2004


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.

-- 
Dimi.



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