unescape-js

Unescape JavaScript special characters

Last updated 9 years ago by iamakulov .

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unescape-js

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}'));
// 😄