Definitions
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- verb programming To reverse the
escaping of a string
Etymologies
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Support

Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word unescape.
Examples
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Just remember to use the '+unescape (' % 22 ') +' in place of any quote marks around the image links and alt tags.
A Tagging Bookmarklet for WordPress and Wordpress.com Users « Lorelle on WordPress 2005
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One feature request: add an unescape() of the tag in fetch_query_tag() to get ugly junk such as %20 in the tag lister.
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Escape/unescape special XML characters in input text
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What's New in This Release: [read full changelog] · Option to unescape matches in include patterns.
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And this code where I insert? function encode_utf8 (s) return unescape (encodeURIComponent (s));
phpBB.com 2010
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What's New in This Release: [read full changelog] · Option to unescape matches in include patterns.
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Escape/unescape special XML characters in input text
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And this code where I insert? function encode_utf8 (s) return unescape (encodeURIComponent (s));
phpBB.com 2010
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There are JavaScript functions that make the same job - escape () and unescape ()
ASP.NET Forums 2009
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FIX: Properly unescape username (only relevant for users with special characters in their names, but I think it's not possible to include such characters in your username anyway). version 1. 3h:
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