From d965040478722726241e5f55ec23b439596e0f9c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Gabriel Luiz Freitas Almeida <gabriel@logspace.ai>
Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2024 08:46:05 -0300
Subject: [PATCH] Fix separator escaping in CharacterTextSplitterComponent

---
 .../langflow/components/textsplitters/CharacterTextSplitter.py  | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/backend/langflow/components/textsplitters/CharacterTextSplitter.py b/src/backend/langflow/components/textsplitters/CharacterTextSplitter.py
index 1bfd2d2e3..d165f47fd 100644
--- a/src/backend/langflow/components/textsplitters/CharacterTextSplitter.py
+++ b/src/backend/langflow/components/textsplitters/CharacterTextSplitter.py
@@ -24,6 +24,8 @@ class CharacterTextSplitterComponent(CustomComponent):
         chunk_size: int = 1000,
         separator: str = "\n",
     ) -> List[Document]:
+        # separator may come escaped from the frontend
+        separator = separator.encode().decode("unicode_escape")
         docs = CharacterTextSplitter(
             chunk_overlap=chunk_overlap,
             chunk_size=chunk_size,