Common Encoding workflows
Encoding changes representation and usually provides no confidentiality. Match the character encoding before converting bytes, and choose URL, HTML or JSON escaping for the actual embedding context.
Choose a tool for your input
Encoding changes representation and usually provides no confidentiality. Match the character encoding before converting bytes, and choose URL, HTML or JSON escaping for the actual embedding context.
- JavaScript Escape / Unescape — Escapes the contents of a regular double-quoted string literal without its surrounding quotes.
- Java Escape / Unescape — Escapes the contents of a regular double-quoted string literal without its surrounding quotes.
- C# Escape / Unescape — Escapes the contents of a regular double-quoted string literal without its surrounding quotes.
- XML Escape / Unescape — Escapes text with the five predefined XML entities and decodes predefined or numeric references.
Review the result before using it
Each tool explains its accepted input, supported options and limits. Keep the original and verify important output in the application that will consume it.
Frequently asked questions
How do I choose a Encoding tool?
Encoding changes representation and usually provides no confidentiality. Match the character encoding before converting bytes, and choose URL, HTML or JSON escaping for the actual embedding context.
Can the same tool appear in more than one topic?
Yes. Tools are listed by supported formats and tasks as well as their main category. Each tool has one page and processing runs locally; explicit API clients connect only to endpoints you choose.
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