From 34d5d9ffa005af9edbe8fde64b8fa6ccb33c8796 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jerry James <loganjerry@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 7 Jul 2023 11:11:49 -0600
Subject: [PATCH] Table separator may contain escapes

Signed-off-by: Jerry James <loganjerry@gmail.com>
---
 asciidoc/asciidoc.py | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/asciidoc/asciidoc.py b/asciidoc/asciidoc.py
index 0ccf24de..6d23a9de 100644
--- a/asciidoc/asciidoc.py
+++ b/asciidoc/asciidoc.py
@@ -2908,7 +2908,7 @@ def validate(self):
                 self.error('missing section: [tabletags-%s]' % t, halt=True)
         if self.separator:
             # Evaluate escape characters.
-            self.separator = ast.literal_eval('"' + self.separator + '"')
+            self.separator = ast.literal_eval('r"' + self.separator + '"')
         # TODO: Move to class Tables
         # Check global table parameters.
         elif config.pagewidth is None: