nadekobot/NadekoBot.Core/Common/Yml/YamlHelper.cs

namespace NadekoBot.Common.Yml
{
    public class YamlHelper
    {
        // https://github.com/aaubry/YamlDotNet/blob/0f4cc205e8b2dd8ef6589d96de32bf608a687c6f/YamlDotNet/Core/Scanner.cs#L1687
        /// <summary>
        /// This is modified code from yamldotnet's repo which handles parsing unicode code points
        /// it is needed as yamldotnet doesn't support unescaped unicode characters 
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="point">Unicode code point</param>
        /// <returns>Actual character</returns>
        public static string UnescapeUnicodeCodePoint(string point)
        {
            var character = 0;

            // Scan the character value.

            foreach(var c in point)
            {
                if (!IsHex(c))
                {
                    return point;
                }
                character = (character << 4) + AsHex(c);
            }

            // Check the value and write the character.

            if (character >= 0xD800 && character <= 0xDFFF || character > 0x10FFFF)
            {
                return point;
            }

            return char.ConvertFromUtf32(character);
        }
        
        public static bool IsHex(char c)
        {
            return
                (c >= '0' && c <= '9') ||
                (c >= 'A' && c <= 'F') ||
                (c >= 'a' && c <= 'f');
        }
        
        public static int AsHex(char c)
        {
            if (c <= '9')
            {
                return c - '0';
            }
            if (c <= 'F')
            {
                return c - 'A' + 10;
            }
            return c - 'a' + 10;
        }
    }
}