From: Vivek <krishna.vivek@...>
Date: 2008-08-18T22:16:43+09:00
Subject: Re: unescaping html

Thanks for the replies , actually I want to unescape some form
parameters which contain [ and ] .
The CGI.unescape works..Is it a superset of what URL.unescape does?

On Aug 18, 5:41 pm, Lars Christensen <lar...@belunktum.dk> wrote:
> On Aug 18, 1:41 pm, Vivek <krishna.vi...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >  Is there a method or any library which allows me to unescape encoded
> > html. For example If I have hi%5Bthere%5D
> > I should get hi[there]
>
> I think you mean encoded URL, not encoded HTML. For URL encoding, you
> can use URL.unescape, or CGI.unescape as Michael sugests.
>
> HTML escaping is a bit more complex, but the CGI has some methods,
> e.g. CGI.escapeHTML/CGI.unescapeHTML.