Glib::ustring C escape sequence conversion

[rbmj <rbmj verizon net>]

Hi All,

I am running in to an issue- I need to have the user input a delimiter 
which may contain non-printable characters (Mostly \r\n and such, but 
these may be different from the current line-ending, and strange 
delimiters are not inconceivable).  Right now I'm using a Gtk::Entry and 
prepopulating it with the currently set delimiter.  I would like to have 
the user type in "mydelim\r\n" and have the program convert this to the 
equivalent byte sequence.  I can do the string processing myself, but, 
as ustring seems to have methods for *everything*, I was guessing that 
there is some nicer way to do this than manual processing.  I was also 
wondering if there are ways of doing the inverse process for nicer 
display.  If there isn't, I'm sorry for wasting your time :/

Thanks!

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Robert Mason