Troubleshooting¶

The Result Is Not Quoted¶

escapeJavaString returns literal content only.

val content = escapeJavaString("a\nb", doubleQuoted = true)
val literal = "\"$content\""

Add surrounding quotes in the caller when you need a complete Java literal.

The Result Is Longer Than Limit¶

limit controls the escaped-content budget, not the final string length. If truncation happens, limitEnding is appended after that budget and can make the returned string longer than limit.

Some Non-ASCII Text Is Not Escaped¶

Letters and digits are preserved even when they are non-ASCII. Other non-ASCII string characters are escaped as \uXXXX.

For escapeJavaChar, non-control code units below 0x100 are returned unchanged. Code units at 0x100 and above use \uXXXX. Backspace is not a short escape in escapeJavaChar; it is rendered as \x08.

This Does Not Parse Escapes¶

The library only renders escaped output. It does not parse Java escape sequences back into raw text.