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# You are reading a comment in ".properties" file.
! The exclamation mark can also be used for comments.
# Lines with "properties" contain a key and a value separated by a delimiting character.
# There are 3 delimiting characters: '=' (equal), ':' (colon) and whitespace (space, \t and \f).
# A word on a line will just create a key with no value.
# White space that appears between the key, the value and the delimiter is ignored.
# This means that the following are equivalent (other than for readability).
# Keys with the same name will be overwritten by the key that is the furthest in a file.
# For example the final value for "duplicateKey" will be "second".
# To use the delimiter characters inside a key, you need to escape them with a \.
# However, there is no need to do this in the value.
# Adding a \ at the end of a line means that the value continues to the next line.
# If you want your value to include a \, it should be escaped by another \.
# This means that if the number of \ at the end of the line is even, the next line is not included in the value.
# In the following example, the value for "evenKey" is "This is on one line\".
# This line is a normal comment and is not included in the value for "evenKey"
# If the number of \ is odd, then the next line is included in the value.
# In the following example, the value for "oddKey" is "This is line one and\#This is line two".
# White space characters are removed before each line.
# Make sure to add your spaces before your \ if you need them on the next line.
# In the following example, the value for "welcome" is "Welcome to Wikipedia!".
# If you need to add newlines and carriage returns, they need to be escaped using \n and \r respectively.
# You can also optionally escape tabs with \t for readability purposes.
# You can also use Unicode escape characters (maximum of four hexadecimal digits).
# In the following example, the value for "encodedHelloInJapanese" is "こんにちは".
# But with more modern file encodings like UTF-8, you can directly use supported characters.