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String encoding conversion operators

New v4.0.0 functions help convert strings to useful forms.

urlEncode("theString")
utf8("theString")
escapeHTML("theString")

urlEncode converts a theString to urlEncoded for for the web. Characters that are illegal in URLs are encoded as '%' followed by the corresponding hexadecimal character code, e.g. a space = %20.

utf8 converts theString to Unicode.

escapeHTML converts HTML and XML special characters in theString to HTML/XML entities. For example, '<' is replaced by '<' and '&' is replaced by '&'.

These new functions will be useful in preparing data for use with other programs and Web services via runCommand().

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