list separator in config entries

[Oswald Buddenhagen]

On Mon, Oct 08, 2007 at 12:15:05PM +0200, Andreas Hartmetz wrote:
>
breaking attributions is Bad (TM).

> > > Everything works fine if you escape the escape char - this is in the
> > > spec IIRC.
> > >
> > hmm? i quoted the spec literally - there is nothing beyond it.
> >
> > > The parser just needs to be smart enough to recognize '\\;' as
> > > "escaped backslash-semicolon" instead of "oh, there's a \, so let's
> > > parse that and uh, we also have a single backslash in front of  it".
> > >
> > this doesn't make any sense. formulate clear rules and provide complex
> > examples to prove that they don't break down in corner cases.
> >
> The spec does specify a way to escape tab, space, newline, and also
> backslash. Now if you don't feign extreme stupidity when implementing
> it you just take the freedom to escape all the backslashes.
>
this completely misses the point. the question is at which point lists
are serialized and therefore through how many escaping passes they go.

> The format may be somewhat underspecified but anybody who knows a
> thing or two about escaping rules that work knows what is really meant
> by the spec.
>
assuming that the spec is implemented only by people who know anything
about working escaping is pretty naive. assuming this of people who
write .desktop files is just stupid.

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