Why is Buddylist stored in such a weird way?

[e306]

Hello Snood.

Why do you store the Buddylist and list of regulars in such an unusual way? i wanted to write a 3rd party application using the data and decoding this just makes it more work for everyone who wants to use it. Why dont you just save the buddies in plain text csv file?

digitalMind;digita_Mind;boloman;bo_oman;lsyrider83 ;_syrider83;RollingPin;Ro__ingPin;

[Mr_Snood]

The problem is the playernames at PokerStars are not what they seem to be.

E.g. The scanner can't distinguish between small "L" and capital "i".
Thus it escapes these letters:
"digitalMind -> digita_Mind"

So it saves them in pairs like:
"That's what I saw" -> "That's what I am 100% sure about"