In modern configurations, some arguments require the use of some characters
that were previously considered as pure delimiters. In order to make this
possible, HAProxy supports character escaping by prepending a backslash ('\')
-in front of the character to be escaped, weak quoting within double quotes
-('"') and strong quoting within single quotes ("'").
+in front of the character to be escaped, weak quoting with double quotes ("")
+around a piece of text, and strong quoting with single quotes ('') around a
+piece of text.
This is pretty similar to what is done in a number of programming languages and
very close to what is commonly encountered in Bourne shell. The principle is