Write a Unicode escape character code to a text file

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I’ve got C# script that converts a text file with all the game narrative in from the writer and converts it into a string file that can be used in the game. I need to put the Unicode escape characters into the string file by their Unicode codes - so, I need to swap all apostrophes for \u0027 and so on. The text file written out however swaps the Unicode codes back to the character I’m trying to replace - so:

string cleanString = dirtyString.Replace("'","\u0027");

Results in the word “There’s” being written out as “There’s”, rather than “There\u0027s”.

To test I tried putting in another word instead of a code and that worked fine -

 string cleanString = dirtyString.Replace("'","TEST");

Results in “ThereTESTs” so I’m thinking that its the Write process that’s swapping the code back to the character. I’m using SystemIO File.WriteAllText to write the text file.

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This is because "'" == "\u0027". If you want “\u0027” to show up in your text file, you have to escape the escape sequence, i.e.

string cleanString = dirtyString.Replace("'","\\u0027");