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unescape

unescape is used to decode entity, html and htmlall. It counters the effects of the escape modifier for the given types.

Parameter Position Type Required Possible Values Default Description


       1            string      No                                             `html`, `htmlall`, `entity`,                                          `html`   This is the escape format to use.
       2            string      No      `ISO-8859-1`, `UTF-8`, and any character set supported by [`htmlentities()`](&url.php-manual;htmlentities)   `UTF-8`  The character set encoding passed to html\_entity\_decode() or htmlspecialchars\_decode() or mb\_convert\_encoding() et. al.


<?php

$smarty->assign('articleTitle',
                "Germans use &quot;&Uuml;mlauts&quot; and pay in &euro;uro"
                );

?>

These are example unescape template lines followed by the output

{$articleTitle}
Germans use &quot;&Uuml;mlauts&quot; and pay in &euro;uro

{$articleTitle|unescape:"html"}
Germans use "&Uuml;mlauts" and pay in &euro;uro

{$articleTitle|unescape:"htmlall"}
Germans use "Ümlauts" and pay in €uro

See also escaping smarty parsing, escape modifier.