Hi Bertwim, QSettings isn't really meant as a general-purpose .ini parser. It *can* sometimes be used for that purpose, but that's not what it's for. This particular behaviour is perhaps comparable to HTML/XML generators, which sometimes will escape things that didn't strictly need escaping... the end result is the same.
-Marian On 8/24/18 7:00 PM, Bertwim wrote: > > > On 08/22/2018 10:35 PM, Thiago Macieira wrote: >> On Wednesday, 22 August 2018 11:06:16 PDT Bertwim wrote: >>> This is what I observe: >>> >>> For instance, if I enter the following, manually, in the ini file: >> [ignored] >> >> What you type manually is not relevant. > It *is* relevant. Because that is what is I type and that is what I see > on the screen. > If I see a ':' changing into a %3A then this confuses me. As the ':' is > just a printable ascii character, I don't see any reason why it should > be treated differently from the other characters, like a-z, 1-9 etc. It > is just a normal printable symbol and in my view it just shouldn't > change the representation. > I don't understand why this is necessary and I would say this is a bug, > even when on reading back, that is internally in the program, the > correct interpretation is found. >> >>> and then look at the ini-file after it has been rewritten to disk, this >>> has become: >>> >>> [foo%3Abar] >>> line%201=some text >>> line%3Atail=indented + key has character ':' >>> >>> Now, looking at the keys, removing the leading and trailing white spaces >>> makes sense to me, as does removing the white spaces around the '='. >>> However, writing the space between 'line' and '1' with the %20 encoding, >>> and likewise the %3A for the colon looks weird >>> and unnecessary, as they are normal ascii characters. >> I don't know why the ':' was encoded. It might be a side-effect of the >> function being used, or just because in other contexts it is a reserved >> character. >> >> My question remains: if you load this file, do ou get "line:tail" as >> the key? >> If so, there is no bug. >> > > _______________________________________________ > Interest mailing list > Interest@qt-project.org > http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/interest _______________________________________________ Interest mailing list Interest@qt-project.org http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/interest
