Fix gn helper script to create *valid* strings for settings containing backslashes.

The current script stores some environment variable values as GN declarations.
It replaces `"` inside the value with `\"` because it creates a `"`-delimited
string, but it doesn't replace `\` with `\\` as it rightly should to preserve
the meaning of the original string.
That affects **Windows paths**. If your path ends in `\`, the created "string literal"
will end (or rather, not end) with `\"` and not be valid.
Similarly if it contains `\"` originally, it will become `\\"` and end the string
early.

It's easy to have a path ending in something like `C:\something\something\`,
and you can't compile Dart if you have that.

Change-Id: Iaa3cdf0c8113fe2f09e7eb3ac7435bf770d8b478
Reviewed-on: https://dart-review.googlesource.com/c/sdk/+/200641
Reviewed-by: Alexander Thomas <athom@google.com>
Commit-Queue: Lasse R.H. Nielsen <lrn@google.com>
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README.md

Dart

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Dart is:

  • Optimized for UI: Develop with a programming language specialized around the needs of user interface creation.

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  • Fast on all platforms: Compile to ARM & x64 machine code for mobile, desktop, and backend. Or compile to JavaScript for the web.

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