Thanks.
On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 5:40 PM, Robert Perona <robert.per...@gmail.com>wrote:
> I downloaded the source and changed the compiler and linker to use null,
> \x0, instead of tab, \t, and it resolved the problem confirming my earlier
> suspician. I will open it as a bug.
> On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 10:48 AM, Robert Perona <robert.per...@gmail.com
> >wrote:
>
> > I experimented some more with orca after looking at the "Archive File
> > Format"
> > in the MSI SDK, and saw the translation of tabs to char 16(DLE).
> >
> > From digging into the source, it appears the compiler uses a tab
> > delimited intermediate format to pass custom table rows to the linker,
> > however it does not escape actual tabs in the data in any way.
> > This is why the data after tabs look like column names.
> >
> > Wix already properly translates the carriage return, 17(DC1), and line
> > feed, 25(EM), control characters mentioned with the tab in the SDK.
> > From the source it is coded to also translate tabs correctly, but a tab
> > will never appear in the data because of the previously mentioned
> > intermediate format.
> > Wix should be able to use a character that will never appear in xml
> instead
> > of tab.
> >
> > >Hmm, we escape IDT chars to allow tabs to flow through. The issue is
> > >probably just to allow CustomTable/Column to set the "escape chars" bit.
> > >
> > >On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 5:53 PM, Bob Arnson <b...@joyofsetup.com> wrote:
> > >
> > >> On 20-Jul-11 17:59, Robert Perona wrote:
> > >> > When there are tabs in the custom table data a compilation error
> > occurs,
> > >> as
> > >> > if the compiler thinks the tab is attempting to create another
> column.
> > >> > I have tried an actual tab, xml escaped tab (	), and msi
> escaping
> > a
> > >> tab
> > >> > ([{tab}], where {tab} is an actual tab)
> > >>
> > >> [my reply from StackOverflow]
> > >> You can't -- data is imported into the .msi package via a
> tab-delimited
> > >> file. See "Archive File Format" in the MSI SDK. If the field can be
> > >> binary, you can import a file's content, which can be anything.
> > >>
> > >> --
> > >> sig://boB
> > >> http://joyofsetup.com/
> >
>
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