What's the state of TextFormat?

[Dan]

Hi there.

I'm wondering what the state of TextFormat support is in protocol
buffers and if it is and will remain a fully supported option.

Among other things, I'm thinking of using it as a way of storing
configuration/state for objects in a message based system in an easy
to read format that can also be serialised efficiently to binary when
needed. Does this seem like a reasonable use for PB or could there be
problems with this approach? Would there be any issues with
localisation for string fields by doing this?

Thanks for the advice.

[Daniel Wright]

TextFormat is used extensively within Google, often for exactly the purpose you describe.  It should work well, though I'd recommend keeping the files in UTF8 to avoid localisation issues.

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