[issue18679] include a codec to handle escaping only control characters but not any others

[Derek Wilson]

Derek Wilson added the comment:

> e.encode('latin1', 'backslashreplace').decode('unicode-escape')

this works, but still the quotes are backslash escaped. 

translate will do what i need for my use case, but it doesn't support streaming for larger chunks of data.

it is nice that there is a workaround but i do still think this is a valuable enough feature that there should be a builtin codec for it.

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