RE: Status of Format Documentation

Folks,

Thanks for the reminder. I've updated the format document (formatV2.txt)
with these comments, plus some additions to better reflect the current
status.

	Cheers,

		Rony 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] 
> [mailto:[email protected]] On 
> Behalf Of Frank Pilhofer
> Sent: Tuesday, July 19, 2005 1:13 AM
> To: Wolfgang Keller; [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [Passwordsafe-devel] Status of Format Documentation
> 
> On Mon, 18 Jul 2005 02:23:40 -0400, Wolfgang Keller 
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > I will shortly publish my results in producing a _Java 
> backend library  
> > to realize PasswordSafe files_ (read and write). In order to avoid  
> > compatibility errors, I'ld like to ask you for your support 
> by naming me  
> > a complete set (or as complete as possible) of documents 
> which detail  
> > the actual file format, including the latest changes. I'ld 
> be grateful  
> > for a special reference to the somewhat unclear question 
> whether text  
> > format has effecively changed to utf-8.
> >
> 
> Hello Wolfgang,
> 
> some time ago, I posted some comments on the formatV2.txt file. At the
> time, it seemed as if we had agreement on the changes, yet they don't
> seem to be reflected in the current formatV2.txt file in the Password
> Safe CVS repository.
> 
> The changes were:
> 
> -  The encoding of textual data depends on the setting of the "IsUTF8"
>     preference (boolean preference number 24). If the IsUTF8 
> preference
>     is true, textual data is stored in UTF-8 format. If the IsUTF8
>     preference is false, textual data is stored using the current
>     locale.
> 
> -  Timestamps are stored as 32 bit, little endian, unsigned integers,
>     representing the number of seconds since Midnight, 
> January 1, 1970,
>     GMT. (This is equivalent to the time_t type on Windows and POSIX.
>     On the Macintosh, the value needs to be adjusted by the constant
>     value 2082844800 to account for the different epoch of its time_t
>     type.) Timestamps are stored in GMT.
> 
> -  Numerical data is stored in little endian byte order.
> 
> See  
> https://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=613986
4&forum_id=7535
for the discussion.

Frank



-- 
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