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unescapeURI() Operation

Syntax

anUnescapedString = aString.unescapeURI(codepage)
anUnescapedString = unescapeURI(LITERAL, codepage)

Semantics

The string encoded as defined in RFC 2396 is unescaped to a UTF-8 string. The codepage defines the source encoding, e.g. URL parameters in links are in the same encoding as the website (e.g. ISO-8859-1). The return value is a string.

Parameters of URLs must be decoded value by value.

Substitutables

aString

Can be any variable or object attribute having the type String.  

codepage

A string with the name of the target codepage.

LITERAL

String literal.

Examples

NONE
set unescaped = unescapeURI("M%fcller", "iso-8859-1")); 

The string unescaped will have the value Müller.

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