From 1226cf84fdae3396499c5e1efc742391e537103a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Hiltjo Posthuma Date: Sun, 10 Apr 2016 20:01:36 +0200 Subject: update README --- README | 12 +++++------- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) (limited to 'README') diff --git a/README b/README index 30e138b..a83cec1 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -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: -- cgit v1.2.3