taler-docs

commit d2824c938212fc9de85ec3bbf3bb0f595e7ac01e
parent 8b56c12d1845b044df381e3cc60bd1e7d8387f9c
Author: Thien-Thi Nguyen <ttn@gnuvola.org>
Date:   Tue, 22 Dec 2020 23:21:16 -0500

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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diff --git a/manpages/taler.conf.5.rst b/manpages/taler.conf.5.rst
@@ -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.