[josm-dev] control characters in config file

[Frederik Ramm]

JOSM devs,

    I am slightly unhappy about the fact that we have control characters 
(more specifically, the "record separator" 0x1e - someone must really 
have read their standards) in the config file. This means that I cannot 
simply email someone and say "add this line to your config file" (e.g. 
to support a new imagery source).

I would like to change that to a semicolon. (Plan: prepend config file 
with a line that goes @version=something, so we can see whether we have 
an old-style or new-style file, support old-style on reading but only 
new-style on writing, escape any existing semicolons and backslashes 
with a backslash.)

Any objections? Or does someone maybe have plans for a grand re-write of 
the config file code anyway, maybe changing to "ini" file syntax, XML, 
or YML? The countless "config.option.0"-style entries cry out for some 
structured config file format but I'm not a big fan of XML configs...

Bye
Frederik