newformat format change

[Martin Pool]

On 01/10/05, Aaron Bentley <aaron.bentley at utoronto.ca> wrote:

> >             print >>f, "RootID:", inv.root.file_id
>
> I don't see any character encoding handling, and the escaping appears
> inconsistent (AFAIK, newlines and tabs are permitted in file_ids).

They're probably not trapped at the moment but I think they shouldn't
be permitted; I don't see a good reason to support them and in some
contexts (e.g. text changesets) they will cause trouble.

--
Martin