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authorHiltjo Posthuma <hiltjo@codemadness.org>2016-04-10 20:01:36 +0200
committerHiltjo Posthuma <hiltjo@codemadness.org>2016-04-10 20:01:36 +0200
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@@ -137,15 +137,13 @@ TAB-separated format fields
The items are saved in a TSV-like format.
-The fields: title, id, author are not allowed to have newlines and TABs. All
-whitespace is replaced by a space character. Control characters are removed.
+The fields: title, id, author are not allowed to have newlines and TABs, all
+whitespace characters are replaced by a space character. Control characters are
+removed.
The content field can contain newlines and TABS and are escaped. TABs, newlines
-and '\' are escaped with '\', so: '\n', '\t', and '\\'. Other whitespace
-characters except space are removed. Control characters are removed.
-
-The timestamp field is converted to a UNIX timestamp. The timestamp is also
-added as a formatted text field.
+and '\' are escaped with '\', so it becomes: '\t', '\n' and '\\'. Other
+whitespace characters except space are removed. Control characters are removed.
The order and format of the fields are: