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unescape-js

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Unescape special characters encoded with JavaScript escape sequences

Install

npm install --save unescape-js

Usage

unescape-js supports:

  • all JavaScript escape sequences described on the according MDN page including ES2015 Unicode code point escapes (\u{XXXXX})
  • Python-style escape sequences (\UXXXXXXXX).

    var unescapeJs = require('unescape-js');
    
    console.log(unescapeJs('Hello,\\nworld!'));
    // Hello,
    // world!
    
    console.log(unescapeJs('Copyright \\u00A9'));
    // Copyright ©
    
    console.log(unescapeJs('\\u{1F604}'));
    // 😄
    

License

MIT © Ivan Akulov