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authorThien-Thi Nguyen <ttn@gnuvola.org>2020-12-22 23:21:16 -0500
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mention "no escaping" for quoted strings in taler.conf(5)
This addresses <https://bugs.gnunet.org/view.php?id=6134#c17222>.
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@@ -27,6 +27,9 @@ The values, however, are *case-sensitive*.
In particular, boolean values are one of ``YES`` or ``NO``.
Values can include whitespace by surrounding
the entire value with ``"`` (double quote).
+Note, however, that there are no escape characters in such strings;
+all characters between the double quotes (including other double quotes)
+are taken verbatim.
Values that represent filenames can begin with a ``/bin/sh``-like
variable reference.