partial support for encoded evidence

gameview.py

@@ -2041,9 +2041,18 @@ class GUI(QtGui.QWidget):
             inifile = ConfigParser()
             inifile.read(path)
             for section in inifile.sections():
-                name = ini.read_ini(inifile, section, "name").decode('utf-8').replace('\\n', '\n')
+                name = ini.read_ini(inifile, section, "name").replace('\\n', '\n').replace('\\"', '"').rstrip()
-                description = ini.read_ini(inifile, section, "description").decode('utf-8').replace('\\n', '\n')
+                description = ini.read_ini(inifile, section, "description").replace('\\n', '\n').replace('\\"', '"').rstrip()
                 image = ini.read_ini(inifile, section, "image", "empty.png")
+                
+                # Remove opening and closing quotes
+                if description[0] == '"' and description[-1] == '"':
+                    description = description[1:-1]
+                    
+                # Not all evidence files are plain unicode
+                name = name.decode("unicode_escape") if "\\x" in name else name.decode('utf-8')
+                description = description.decode("unicode_escape") if "\\x" in description else description.decode('utf-8')
+                
                 evidence.append([name, description, image])
                 
             if self.privateinv or is_autoload:
@@ -2080,6 +2089,8 @@ class GUI(QtGui.QWidget):
             return QtGui.QMessageBox.information(self, "Can't transfer evidence", 'The evidence "%s" already exists in the %s inventory.' % (evi[0], target_str))
         else:
             if self.privateinv:
+                for i in range(len(evi)):
+                    evi[i] = evi[i].replace('#', '<num>').replace('%', '<percent>').replace('&', '<and>').replace('$', '<dollar>').replace('\\n', '\n')
                 self.tcp.send('PE#' + evi[0] + '#' + evi[1] + '#' + evi[2] + '#%')
             else:
                 self.privateevidence.append(evi)