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Allow YAML string fields to be explicitly quoted when serialising front matter
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Description
I have run into an interoperability issue when a string field contains a value such as a 24-hour time.
For example, if a collection contains:
```
- label: "Start Time"
name: "start_time"
widget: "string"
```
If I enter: `18:30`, decap serialises it as `start_time: 18:30`.
I think Decap correctly treats this as a string. However, Jekyll’s YAML parsing interprets the unquoted value 18:30 using YAML 1.1 sexagesimal notation, resulting in: `1110`.
This means the value is rendered by Jekyll as 1110/1110.0 rather than 18:30.
Quoting the value fixes the issue:
`start_time: "18:30"`
## Expected behaviour
Given: `18:30`, Decap would serialise this to: `start_time: "18:30"`.
## Current behaviour
Decap serialises: `start_time: 18:30`
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