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Escape all characters in a string using both Unicode and hexadecimal escape sequences
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| // Ever needed to escape '\n' as '\\n'? This function does that for any character, | |
| // using hex and/or Unicode escape sequences (whichever are shortest). | |
| // Demo: http://mothereff.in/js-escapes | |
| function unicodeEscape(str) { | |
| return str.replace(/[\s\S]/g, function(character) { | |
| var escape = character.charCodeAt().toString(16), | |
| longhand = escape.length > 2; | |
| return '\\' + (longhand ? 'u' : 'x') + ('0000' + escape).slice(longhand ? -4 : -2); | |
| }); | |
| } |
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@mathiasbynens It looks great! I did try to use it but unfortunately I'm not up to date with all the browserify/bundling stuff and just need a vanilla JS script (e.g. no use of
Buffer) to include in a module import and wasn't able to work out how to do that withjsesc(though I admit I only poked around for a few minutes before deciding to write the function above). Also, out of pure curiosity I'd be interested in cases where the above function fails - I couldn't find any failing cases in my tests.