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Right now all you find here is a function taken from glib-1.3 that we need in several places. Since Gimp doesn't rely on glib-1.3, we provide it here.
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Escapes special characters in a string in the same way as in the C language, i.e. either with one of the sequences \b, \f, \n, \r, \t, \\, \", or as a three-digit octal escape sequence \nnn.
If the list of exceptions is NULL, all ASCII control characters, the backslash character, the double-quote character, and all non-ASCII characters are escaped.
If glib > 1.3 is installed this function is identical to 
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Does the opposite of 
Escaped characters are either one of the sequences \b, \f, \n, \r, \t, \\, \", or a three-digit octal escape sequence \nnn.
If glib > 1.3 is installed this function is identical to