commit 1226cf84fdae3396499c5e1efc742391e537103a
parent eb6fe6f11a14afc82cd0039d88759d6c1c524d2f
Author: Hiltjo Posthuma <hiltjo@codemadness.org>
Date: Sun, 10 Apr 2016 20:01:36 +0200
update README
Diffstat:
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
diff --git 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:
