# HG changeset patch
# User Chris Cannam
# Date 1307440768 -3600
# Node ID 4f5414a7edb4432755e414d78cbbf1f07c5c4195
# Parent  69fb864a39724e0e582979dd758f437c76b01847
Handle escaped backslash (\\u) for cases where Unicode escape is not intended

diff -r 69fb864a3972 -r 4f5414a7edb4 src/common.cpp
--- a/src/common.cpp	Mon Jun 06 21:33:25 2011 +0100
+++ b/src/common.cpp	Tue Jun 07 10:59:28 2011 +0100
@@ -262,14 +262,24 @@
 {
     QString d;
     for (int i = 0; i < s.length(); ++i) {
+        // backslash-u escaped with another backslash: replace with a
+        // single backslash and skip on
+        if (i+2 < s.length() && s[i] == '\\' && s[i+1] == '\\' && s[i+2] == 'u') {
+            d += "\\u";
+            i += 2;
+            continue;
+        }
+        // unescaped backslash followed by u and at least four more
+        // chars: replace with Unicode character
         if (i+5 < s.length() && s[i] == '\\' && s[i+1] == 'u') {
             QString uni = s.mid(i+2, 4);
             QByteArray ba = QByteArray::fromHex(uni.toAscii());
             d += QChar(ba[1], ba[0]);
             i += 5;
-        } else {
-            d += s[i];
+            continue;
         }
+        // default case: leave alone
+        d += s[i];
     }
     return d;
 }