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authorBrennan Ashton <bashton@brennanashton.com>2018-10-30 14:09:07 -0700
committerMarcus Müller <marcus@hostalia.de>2018-11-01 15:26:59 +0100
commit99a262b7309b6b291820168df7da1b3689382254 (patch)
treec41229f0c5b5f7e4226759033f28b6c72b32d3b6 /docs
parent08ed1e66f4cc6824fad043621f3b92e534d335e4 (diff)
docs: Properly excape backslashes in swig docstrings
Fixes #2097
Diffstat (limited to 'docs')
-rw-r--r--docs/doxygen/swig_doc.py4
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/docs/doxygen/swig_doc.py b/docs/doxygen/swig_doc.py
index 307920d776..6b74c0155f 100644
--- a/docs/doxygen/swig_doc.py
+++ b/docs/doxygen/swig_doc.py
@@ -80,11 +80,13 @@ class Block2(object):
def utoascii(text):
"""
- Convert unicode text into ascii and escape quotes.
+ Convert unicode text into ascii and escape quotes and backslashes.
"""
if text is None:
return ''
out = text.encode('ascii', 'replace')
+ # swig will require us to replace blackslash with 4 backslashes
+ out = out.replace(b'\\', b'\\\\\\\\')
out = out.replace(b'"', b'\\"').decode('ascii')
return str(out)