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+Characters with special escaping are as follow :
+
+: double-quote (`"`)
+:: Escaped by prefixing with a backslash (`\`)
+
+: backslash (`\`)
+:: Escaped by prefixing with a backslash (`\`)
+
+: bell (`0x07`)
+:: Escaped as `\a`
+
+: backspace (`0x08`)
+:: Escaped as `\b`
+
+: tabulation (`0x09`)
+:: Escaped as `\t`
+
+: line feed (`0x0a`)
+:: Escaped as `\n`
+
+: vertical tabulation (`0x0b`)
+:: Escaped as `\v`
+
+: form feed (`0x0c`)
+:: Escaped as `\f`
+
+: carriage return (`0x0d`)
+:: Escaped as `\r`
+
+Additionally, specific bytes can be specified using hex-mode, that is `\x`
+followed by its hexadecimal code. (For example, byte 127 would be escaped as
+`\x7f`).
+
+Anything else will be treated as-is.