Dmitriy Synkov

Python string literals interpret the `\` as the start of an escape sequence. Characters `\n` and `\r` represent newlines and carriage returns, respectively. It will not render the value without...

``` import pyhocon config = pyhocon.ConfigTree() d = {'foo':1, 'bar':2, 'baz':3} config['example'] = d with open("example.conf","w") as outfile: outfile.write(pyhocon.HOCONConverter.to_hocon(config)) ```

For me it was `U0001f44d`, or the ["thumbs up" sign](http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/1F44D/index.htm). @umutto's suggestion seemed to do the trick.

I think the last time I considered it there was an active project already on PyPi; have you looked at https://smmrpy.readthedocs.io/en/latest/api.html?

I will see if I can add it in the next week or so; would be worthwhile since the one I linked above is no longer on Github.