// depending on input, additionally also handles situations such as
// `//` are normalized as `/`, also removes any `/` prefix before
// returning.
func unescapeGeneric(p string, escapeFn func(string) (string, error)) (string, error) {
	ep, err := escapeFn(p)
	if err != nil {
		return "", err
	}
	return trimLeadingSlash(ep), nil
}

// unescapePath is similar to unescapeGeneric but for specifically
// path unescaping.

        String escaped3 = SuggestUtil.escapeWildcardQuery(query3);
        assertEquals("test\\*query\\?end", escaped3);

        // Test with no wildcards
        String query4 = "test query";
        String escaped4 = SuggestUtil.escapeWildcardQuery(query4);
        assertEquals("test query", escaped4);

        // Test with multiple wildcards
        String query5 = "***???";

          destIndex += charsSkipped;
        }
        if (escaped.length > 0) {
          System.arraycopy(escaped, 0, dest, destIndex, escaped.length);
          destIndex += escaped.length;
        }
        // If we dealt with an escaped character, reset the unescaped range.
        unescapedChunkStart = nextIndex;
      }
      index = nextEscapeIndex(s, nextIndex, end);
    }

     * is that in JavaScript, a single quote must be escaped.</p>
     *
     * <p>Example:</p>
     * <pre>
     * input string: He didn't say, "Stop!"
     * output string: He didn't say, \"Stop!\"
     * </pre>
     *
     *
     * @param str  String to escape values in, may be null
     * @return String with escaped values, <code>null</code> if null string input
     */

     * is that in JavaScript, a single quote must be escaped.</p>
     *
     * <p>Example:</p>
     * <pre>
     * input string: He didn't say, "Stop!"
     * output string: He didn't say, \"Stop!\"
     * </pre>
     *
     *
     * @param str  String to escape values in, may be null
     * @return String with escaped values, <code>null</code> if null string input
     */

            return escape(s) + ".*";
        }
        final StringBuilder buf = new StringBuilder(100);
        return appendFileterPath(buf, escape(s));
    }

    /**
     * Escapes special regex characters in a string to create a literal pattern.

    }

    /**
     * Escapes specific characters in a query string.
     * Replaces each specified character with its escaped version (prefixed with backslash).
     *
     * @param q the query string to escape
     * @param values the characters to escape
     * @return the escaped query string
     */
    protected String escape(final String q, final String... values) {
        String value = q;

        }
    }

    /**
     * Escapes wildcard characters in the given query string.
     *
     * This method replaces all occurrences of '*' with '\*' and
     * all occurrences of '?' with '\?' to ensure that these characters
     * are treated as literals rather than wildcard characters in queries.
     *
     * @param query the query string to escape
     * @return the escaped query string
     */

});
```

### Text Processing and JSON
```java
import org.codelibs.core.text.*;

// JSON utilities with proper escaping
String escaped = JsonUtil.escape("Hello \"World\" with special chars");
String unescaped = JsonUtil.unescape(escaped);

// Text tokenization
Tokenizer tokenizer = new Tokenizer("field1,field2,field3", ",");
while (tokenizer.hasMoreTokens()) {

http://%ef%bc%85%ef%bc%94%ef%bc%91.com

# ...%00 in fullwidth should fail (also as escaped UTF-8 input)
http://\uff05\uff10\uff10.com
http://%ef%bc%85%ef%bc%90%ef%bc%90.com

# Basic IDN support, UTF-8 and UTF-16 input should be converted to IDN
http://\u4f60\u597d\u4f60\u597d  s:http p:/ h:xn--6qqa088eba

# Invalid escaped characters should fail and the percents should be
# escaped. https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=24191
http://%zz%66%a.com