MySQL Bugs: #8604: Provide alternative way to encode backslash in windows pathes?

Bug #8604	Provide alternative way to encode backslash in windows pathes?
Submitted:	18 Feb 2005 15:45	Modified:	25 Oct 2005 8:25
Reporter:	Hartmut Holzgraefe	Email Updates:
Status:	Verified	Impact on me:	None
Category:	MySQL Server: General	Severity:	S4 (Feature request)
Version:	any	OS:	Windows (windows)
Assigned to:		CPU Architecture:	Any

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Description:
Currently backslashes in Windows pathes need to be either converted into regular
unix-style slashes or escaped as double backslashes.

This seems to be sort of a problem when my.ini files are created programaticly.

Suggestion: 

Have my.ini treat strings like PHP does -> do not require escaping for strings put in single qoutes and take everything in there as verbatim characters instead

How to repeat:
datadir=C:\new-mysql   -> would become C:ew-mysql as \n is a special character sequence

Suggested fix:
support 

datadir='C:\new-mysql'

(note the single quotes)