un-ascii string should not escape. about nbtlib HOT 5 CLOSED

Unicode escaping works as intended. In this case the extra backslashes are there because the python repl outputs a representation of the string to your terminal rather than the string itself:

>>> 我 = String('我')
>>> str(我)
'"\\\\u6211"'
>>> print(repr(str(我)))  # This is the code that the repl executes
'"\\\\u6211"'

If you want to display the actual nbt literal you just need to print the string directly:

>>> print(str(我))
"\\u6211"
>>> print(我)  # The `print` function internally calls `str`
"\\u6211"

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but,command do not support escapes like \uxxxx.

🤔

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Oh right my mistake I tested it with json text objects so I didn't realize that the reason why the escape sequence worked was because it was interpreted afterwards by the json parsing:

>>> print(Compound({'display': Compound({'Name': String('{"text":"我"}')})}))
{display:{Name:"{\"text\":\"\\u6211\"}"}}

So yeah I tried it out in a command and it worked:

/give @p minecraft:apple{display:{Name:"{\"text\":\"\\u6211\"}"}}

Anyway since bare strings seem to support unicode characters directly I think I'll just get rid of the escaping.

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Alright escaping problems should be fixed in 97efa25.

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Closing the issue as the fix is now in release 1.3.1.

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