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Created January 23, 2013 19:06
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Page to emit character literal escape sequences in different programming languages.
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charesc.html
<html>
<head><title>Character Escapes</title>
<style type="text/css">
body {
font-family: sans-serif;
margin-top: 1in;
}
p {
font-size: large;
text-align: center;
}
table, input {
font-size: xx-large;
}
td {
padding: 0.5em;
}
input {
text-align: center;
}
.code {
font-family: monospace;
background-color: #eee;
}
.footer {
margin-top: 1in;
font-size: small;
}
</style>
<script src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.9.0/jquery.min.js"></script>
<script>
var convert = function(chars) {
if (chars === "") {
$("#sgmlesc").html("");
$("#jesc").html("");
$("#pesc").html("");
return true;
}
var code = chars.charCodeAt(0);
var hex = code.toString(16);
var hex4 = hex;
while (hex4.length < 4) { hex4 = "0" + hex4; }
$("#sgmlesc").html("&amp;#" + code + ";");
$("#jesc").html("\\u" + hex4);
$("#pesc").html("\\x" + hex);
return true;
}
</script>
</head>
<body>
<p>
Need a character escape sequence?
</p>
<table style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto">
<tr>
<td>Character to escape</td>
<td><input type="text" size="1" onkeyup="convert(this.value)"></input>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>SGML (HTML, XML)</td>
<td class="code"><span id="sgmlesc"></span></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Java / JavaScript / Python</td>
<td class="code"><span id="jesc"></span></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Perl / Ruby / PHP / bash</td>
<td class="code"><span id="pesc"></span></td>
</tr>
</table>
<p>
Caution: Some languages do not support values greater than 255 / 0xff.
</p>
<p class="footer">
by <a href="https://github.com/kbzod">Bill</a>
</p>
</body>
</html>
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