Microsoft® JScript™ unescape Method | Language Reference Version 1

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##### Description

> Decodes String objects encoded with the escape method.

##### Syntax

> unescape(charstring)

> The charstring argument is a String object to be decoded.

##### Remarks

> The unescape method returns a new String object that contains the contents of charstring. All characters encoded with the %xx hexadecimal form are replaced by their ASCII character set equivalents.

> Characters encoded in %u xxxx format (Unicode characters) are replaced with the Unicode character with hexadecimal encoding xxxx.

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