String expansion (%n %t)

[Rob Shearman]

2009/3/8 Rick Jones <rick at activeservice.co.uk>:
> Is there a Windows string function that expands escape sequences such as %n,
> %t, etc, and which is replicated by Wine?

FormatMessageA/W?

> I ask because I have a Windows app that is screwing up because of something
> like this. It has a private .ini settings file, and some settings are stored
> in that kind of format, but when it runs on Wine they are wrongly retrieved
> (this is a 3rd party app, I don't have the source).
>
> It looks horribly like %n is being expanded to NL instead of CR-NL. If
> there's a Windows/Wine function for this then I might be able to use a
> native DLL to get round it, but I've no idea where it might reside! AFAIK
> GetPrivateProfileString() doesn't do this expansion inherently.
>
> Also if it is the case that the behaviour's different, then I would say it's
> a Wine bug.
>
> Any ideas appreciated.

-- 
Rob Shearman