How can I de-escape my strings at run time?

[Peter da Silva]

In article <MEISSNER.90Jun5102326 at curley.osf.org> meissner at osf.org (Michael Meissner) writes:
> The C standard mandates that \r and \n have separate numeric values.

That'll be fun for Microware and people using OS/9.

> | Not to mention that C pretty much assumes you'll have non-portable
> | characters like # and {} available...

> That's why there are trigraphs.

Does anyone actually use them for work? It seems to me they're pretty much
unusable in practice except for transferring code between environments.

> (or your DG terminal in DG mode....).  Also, not everything is a
> terminal, escape whatever also does things to printers, and such.

And there is a standard for that.
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