Hi,

I want to write an importer/writer for DP transaction logs in ruby, and to do
that, I need to know the markup of the file. Is there anything more I need to
know besides:

- Line begins with: =<panelnr>=
- Field seperator is: *<fieldnr>
- Record seperator is: **
- Field contents is in quotes: "name"
- Quoted text in fields is double quoted, like: ""hello""

And some questions I have:

New lines in multiline fields, both have \r\n and the string CR. I don't quite
see the logic which is used when.

What exactly is the character encoding? I started DP with the /w flag, which
causes reports to be written in latin1, but it doesn't seem to help with
transaction logs. Is this a conscience choice, seeing as how importing back
from a WP merge file containing latin1 fails?

Any help is appreciated.

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