essentials/Essentials — comment on commit 51920420ce6b2a92cb5bb0b29421be913e69a794
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By khobbits:

Java treats '\' as an escape character thus '\\' will be replaced with '\' and '\u00a7' will be replaced with '§'.
If I was going to do a regex string (such as with replaceall), I might need to double or triple escape, due to the fact that \ is also a regex escape character.

As to my choice of quote marks, '' can be used to refer to a single character, rather than a string, which is a slightly different (and probably lighter) overload of replace.