Bare Escape Sequence Converter
Escape and unescape bare text without surrounding quotes or evaluating JavaScript.
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How to use this tool
Paste local text, choose the explicit operation and run. Copy or download the complete result. No input is executed, opened or fetched.
When not to use it
URL input8KiB; bare escapes100000 UTF-16 units/256KiB; output1MiB. Worker startup10s/processing1s. URL fields follow the WHATWG parser, with duplicate query pairs preserved. Credentials are masked in output unless explicitly revealed. Escapes accept n/r/t/b/f/v/0/quotes/backslash/xHH/uHHHH/u{codepoint}; octal, line continuations, malformed escapes and decoded unpaired surrogates are rejected.