• A line beginning with ’#’ is considered a freeform comment.

• Each file must contain a header line that categorizes the file.

• Only String values are supported.

• Since values are assumed to be Strings, they should not be in quotes.

• Each entry must exist on a single line, and the following escaped characters are supported: \\, \n, \r, \t, \f, \".

• Key cannot contain ’=’, since it is the key/value separator.

• Key cannot contain "#", since it is a comment character, but the character is allowed in the value.