Variable unescapeConst

Type declaration

• • (src: string): string

  • Replaces \uxxxx UTF-16 escapes, full \Uxxxxxxxx UTF-32 codepoint escapes and other well-known backslash escape sequences (see ESCAPES) with the characters they represent.

    Parameters

    • src: string

    Returns string

    Remarks

    Any unknown named escape sequences (e.g. \1) will remain as is.

    • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTF-16#Code_points_from_U+010000_to_U+10FFFF
    • https://www.unicode.org/charts/
    • https://www.branah.com/unicode-converter

    Example

    import { unescape } from "@thi.ng/strings";
    
    console.log(
      unescape("\\ud83d\\ude0e \\U0001f60e")
    );
    // '😎 😎'
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