newformat format change

[Aaron Bentley]

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Gustavo Niemeyer wrote:
>>I don't see any character encoding handling, and the escaping appears
>>inconsistent (AFAIK, newlines and tabs are permitted in file_ids).
>>
>>It would probably be smart to define one function to write values to the
>>file, and use that instead.  e.g.
> 
> 
> As I tried hard to emphasise, this was a proof of concept to show
> the points we were discussing.

Okay, but I think character encoding is a really important point, and
it's one that I'd already raised.

Aaron
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