question: private static synchronized String parseQuotedString ( String s ) throws UnsupportedEncodingException , CharacterCodingException { StringBuffer result = new StringBuffer ( ) ; StringCharacterIterator iterator = new StringCharacterIterator ( s ) ; char c = iterator . current ( ) ; while ( iterator . getIndex ( ) < iterator . getEndIndex ( ) ) { switch ( c ) { case '\\' : { result . append ( parseEscapedSequence ( iterator ) ) ; break ; } default : { result . append ( c ) ; break ; } } c = iterator . next ( ) ; } return result . toString ( ) ; }
target:  Parses a string according to the format specified for ASCII property lists. Such strings can contain escape sequences which are unescaped in this method.