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}'));
// 😄

License

MIT © Ivan Akulov