return out.toString();
    }

    /**
     * <p>Escapes the characters in a <code>String</code> using Java String rules.</p>
     *
     * <p>Deals correctly with quotes and control-chars (tab, backslash, cr, ff, etc.) </p>
     *
     * <p>So a tab becomes the characters <code>'\\'</code> and
     * <code>'t'</code>.</p>
     *
     * <p>The only difference between Java strings and JavaScript strings

@endlocal & set MAVEN_OPTS=%MAVEN_OPTS% %JVM_CONFIG_MAVEN_OPTS%

:endReadJvmConfig

@REM do not let MAVEN_PROJECTBASEDIR end with a single backslash which would escape the double quote. This happens when .mvn at drive root.
if "_%MAVEN_PROJECTBASEDIR:~-1%"=="_\" set "MAVEN_PROJECTBASEDIR=%MAVEN_PROJECTBASEDIR%\"

</p>

<p>
Several backslash escapes allow arbitrary values to be encoded as
ASCII text.  There are four ways to represent the integer value
as a numeric constant: <code>\x</code> followed by exactly two hexadecimal
digits; <code>\u</code> followed by exactly four hexadecimal digits;
<code>\U</code> followed by exactly eight hexadecimal digits, and a
plain backslash <code>\</code> followed by exactly three octal digits.