ESCAPE_CODES

A mapping from a character to a number of bytes to read-ahead for that escape sequence. These escape sequences are used to handle unicode escaping in the following formats, where H is a hexadecimal character:

  • \xHH : escaped 8-bit Unicode character

  • \uHHHH : escaped 16-bit Unicode character

  • \UHHHHHHHH : escaped 32-bit Unicode character