add serialization spec

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/mkcharacters b/mkcharacters
index 0ec871e..9b2f0c1 100755
--- a/mkcharacters
+++ b/mkcharacters
@@ -104,7 +104,11 @@ end
 do
   local chardata    = get_characters()
   local stripped    = extract_fields(chardata)
-  local serialized  = table.serialize(stripped)
+  local serialized  = table.serialize(stripped, true, {
+    compact   = true,
+    noquotes  = true,
+    hexify    = true, --- for consistency with char-def
+  })
   if writedata(serialized) then
     goto done
   end