Utf8.escape

Available since: Gideros 2016.06
Class: utf8

Description

Escapes a str to UTF-8 format string.

(string) = utf8.escape(s)

It supports several escape format:

• %ddd - which ddd is a decimal number at any length: change Unicode code point to UTF-8 format
• %{ddd} - same as %ddd but has bracket around
• %uddd - same as %ddd, u stands Unicode
• %u{ddd} - same as %{ddd}
• %xhhh - hexadigit version of %ddd
• %x{hhh} same as %xhhh
• %? - '?' stands for any other character: escape this character

Parameters

s: (string)

Return values

Returns (string) escaped string

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• Utf8
• Utf8.byte
• Utf8.char
• Utf8.charpattern
• Utf8.charpos
• Utf8.codepoint
• Utf8.codes
• Utf8.escape
• Utf8.find
• Utf8.fold
• Utf8.gmatch
• Utf8.gsub
• Utf8.insert
• Utf8.len
• Utf8.lower
• Utf8.match
• Utf8.ncasecmp
• Utf8.next
• Utf8.offset
• Utf8.remove
• Utf8.reverse
• Utf8.sub
• Utf8.title
• Utf8.upper
• Utf8.width
• Utf8.widthindex

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