[issue33974] _stringify handles quoted strings incorrectly

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[issue33974] _stringify handles quoted strings incorrectly

New submission from Gauchj : _stringify escapes special characters so they can be processed by tcl/tk. To that end, two different escaping techniques are implemented: put a backslash in front of every special character or put the entire string in curly braces. However, a string like the