Function
GLibstrcompress
Declaration [src]
gchar*
g_strcompress (
const gchar* source
)
Description [src]
Makes a copy of a string replacing C string-style escape sequences with their one byte equivalent:
\b→ U+0008 Backspace\f→ U+000C Form Feed\n→ U+000A Line Feed\r→ U+000D Carriage Return\t→ U+0009 Horizontal Tabulation\v→ U+000B Vertical Tabulation\followed by one to three octal digits → the numeric value (mod 255)\followed by any other character → the character as is. For example,\\will turn into a backslash (\) and\"into a double quote (").
g_strescape() does the reverse conversion.