GLibstrcompress

gchar*
g_strcompress (
  const gchar* source
)

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.

source

Type: const gchar*

A string to compress.

The data is owned by the caller of the function.

The value is a NUL terminated UTF-8 string.

Type: gchar*

A newly-allocated copy of source with all escaped character compressed.

The caller of the function takes ownership of the data, and is responsible for freeing it.

The value is a NUL terminated UTF-8 string.