ir: store FileInfo string in escaped format (#1690)

This should speed up the common case
as the compiler never operates on the
unescaped string.
The new escape function also fixes a bug
where ']' was not escaped even though it
is the delimiting character for FileInfo.
In order to maintain backwards
compatibility for the ProtoBuf format,
this patch adds escape/unescape calls
when going from/to protobuf format.
For better performance we should consider
changing the protobuf format.