[Interest] QSettings keys

[Thiago Macieira]

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.

> 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.

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Thiago Macieira - thiago.macieira (AT) intel.com
  Software Architect - Intel Open Source Technology Center