SavedVariable (WTF) files no longer have tabs to make them readable

[Gildina-earthen-ring]

When I noticed the change to the saved variables files i remembered reading this post and wondered if it was the reason for the change.

Option to Compress SavedVariables

Hi there. I’m a developer that maintains the AllTheThings addon for all versions of WoW and this is something that’s been itching at me for the longest time. SavedVariables for WoW are encoded to be human readable. They have comments for table positions and indexes and tabulation and new lines literally everywhere. This makes for a data document containing several hundred thousand indexes in a table to be massive. Not only does this make the file large, but since Lua is a text-based language,…