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There is a lot of machinery around Qt settings .ini files that json does not support. For example, a file watcher is specified and an inter-process communication is used to synchronize settings shared across all of the current instances of the main process.
This machinery would all have to be recreated if we move away completely from ini files. We tried that by moving to utf-8 but since a unicode character cannot be written in a single access and is made up of multiple bytes collisions and data corruption happened.
So moving away from ini to pure standalone json files is probably not going to happen. We lost 3 releases to ini file corruption when we tried just to change it to utf-8 encoding.
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