# drawString() does not draw escape sequences

**URL:** <https://discourse.libcinder.org/t/drawstring-does-not-draw-escape-sequences/804>\
**Category:** Using Cinder\
**Created:** [July 24, 2017, 2:29pm UTC](https://discourse.libcinder.org/t/drawstring-does-not-draw-escape-sequences/804 "2017-07-24T14:29:18Z")\
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**Author:** ![katsully](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/34f0e0/32.png) [@katsully](https://discourse.libcinder.org/u/katsully)\
**Post date:** [July 24, 2017, 2:29pm UTC](https://discourse.libcinder.org/t/drawstring-does-not-draw-escape-sequences/804/1 "2017-07-24T14:29:18Z")

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I’m using the twitcurl library to pull Twitter data which I then draw to the screen. The data contains lots of escape sequences (ie /223) but when I print the tweet to the console it gets parsed at run time and I get the literal value. However, when I use the drawString function it doesn’t print any escape sequences to the screen.

How do I handle this?

Ideally, when I parse the JSON there is some kind of decoder to handle escape sequences.