@@ -475,7 +475,7 @@ class XDotAttrParser:

     def __init__(self, parser, buf):

         self.parser = parser

-        self.buf = self.unescape(buf)

+        self.buf = buf

         self.pos = 0

         self.pen = Pen()

@@ -484,11 +484,6 @@ class XDotAttrParser:

     def __nonzero__(self):

         return self.pos < len(self.buf)

-    def unescape(self, buf):

-        buf = buf.replace('\\"', '"')

-        buf = buf.replace('\\n', '\n')

-        return buf

-

     def read_code(self):

         pos = self.buf.find(" ", self.pos)

         res = self.buf[self.pos:pos]

@@ -957,10 +952,11 @@ class DotLexer(Lexer):

             text = text.replace('\\\r', '')

             text = text.replace('\\\n', '')

-            text = text.replace('\\r', '\r')

-            text = text.replace('\\n', '\n')

-            text = text.replace('\\t', '\t')

-            text = text.replace('\\', '')

+            # quotes

+            text = text.replace('\\"', '"')

+

+            # layout engines recognize other escape codes (many non-standard)

+            # but we don't translate them here

             type = ID