diff --git a/lua/entities/gmod_wire_expression2/base/tokenizer.lua b/lua/entities/gmod_wire_expression2/base/tokenizer.lua
index 9f63785dfb..c322e9195b 100644
--- a/lua/entities/gmod_wire_expression2/base/tokenizer.lua
+++ b/lua/entities/gmod_wire_expression2/base/tokenizer.lua
@@ -268,39 +268,31 @@ function Tokenizer:Next()
 
 	if self:At() == "\"" then
 		self:NextChar()
-		local buffer, nbuffer = {}, 0
-		while true do
-			local m = self:ConsumePattern("^[^\"\\]*[\"\\]", true)
-
-			if m then
-				nbuffer = nbuffer + 1
-				buffer[nbuffer] = m:sub(1, -2)
-
-				-- See if the last char in the match was a quote or an escape char
-				if m:sub( -1, -1) == "\"" then
-					break
+		local m = self:ConsumePattern("^[^\"]*[\"]", true)
+
+		if m then
+			m = m:sub(1, -2)
+			m = WireLib.ParseEscapes(m)
+
+			-- Warn on bad escapes
+			local pos = 1
+			while true do
+				local match
+				pos, _, match = m:find("(\\.)", pos)
+				if pos then
+					pos = pos + 1
+					match = match:gsub("%G", " ")
+					self:Warning("Invalid escape " .. match)
 				else -- Escape
-					local c = self:At()
-
-					if not Escapes[c] then
-						self:Warning("Invalid escape \\" .. c)
-						c = '\\' .. c
-					else
-						c = Escapes[c]
-					end
-
-					self:NextChar(true)
-
-					nbuffer = nbuffer + 1
-					buffer[nbuffer] = c
+					break
 				end
-			else
-				self:ConsumePattern("^.*", true)
-				return self:Error("Missing \" to end string")
 			end
+		else
+			self:ConsumePattern("^.*", true)
+			return self:Error("Missing \" to end string")
 		end
 
-		return Token.new(TokenVariant.String, table.concat(buffer, '', 1, nbuffer))
+		return Token.new(TokenVariant.String, m)
 	end
 
 	if E2Lib.GrammarLookup[self:At()] then