Talk:Escape character

This article could really use a few examples of WHAT exactly an escape character would look like in various programming languages. I mean, otherwise it could be difficult for the laymen to understand what exactly is meant here.

Would someone add some code samples please? Mzanime 17:50, 9 March 2006 (UTC) [reply ]

The following ought to be added to this article at some point. Derek farn 16:11, 10 April 2007 (UTC) [reply ]

The C# language offers a special notation called @-quoting, where an @ symbol is placed before the opening quotation mark of a string literal. Escape sequences in an @-quoted string are not processed, so that (for instance) the backslashes in @"C:\Foo\Bar\Baz\" are interpreted as backslashes and not as escape characters. Similarly, quotation marks may be included in an @-quoted string by doubling them: @"I said, ""Hello there."""

Derek farn 16:11, 10 April 2007 (UTC) [reply ]

The escape key is part of the MS-Windows UI -- forms use it to replicate clicking the close or cancel button. (削除) Peter L Jones (削除ここまで), 16 November 2008 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 87.194.55.32 (talk • contribs)

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The MoS (Wikipedia:Manual of Style (self-references to avoid)#Think about print) explicitly states:

... so try to use terms such as "this article" as opposed to "this website".

Why that this article considered to be a banned self-reference? Incnis Mrsi (talk) 19:06, 21 July 2010 (UTC) [reply ]

Sometimes you wonder whether such entries are intentionally obfuscated. Need it be an incantation? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Breezeclimber (talk • contribs) 04:41, 30 August 2010 (UTC) [reply ]

0x7D octet (175,円 or ASCII: ) ) ——the 0x7D in ASCII should be "}". Ligand (talk) 17:06, 24 March 2012 (UTC) [reply ]

Seems a lot of this article (Escape character) is probably more suited to the Escape sequence article. Perhaps the two could even be merged together; I’m not sure. Vadmium (talk, contribs) 10:12, 8 December 2012 (UTC).[reply ]

Yes, move the material on escape sequences to the correct article. No don't merge the articles, they are different concepts. Op47 (talk) 20:39, 8 February 2013 (UTC) [reply ]

This article should definitely be merged into escape sequence. The sequence is the interesting thing. The prefix (esc char) is nothing without the sequence. Stevebroshar (talk) 22:06, 5 July 2025 (UTC) [reply ]

OK, what is the Wikipedia escape character? I need to write out some things that are normally processed as tags. Seems like this page should include that. Gah4 (talk) 13:50, 10 October 2016 (UTC) [reply ]

There's <nowiki>. See Help:Wiki markup (and Help:NOWIKI in particular). Tea2min (talk) 13:58, 10 October 2016 (UTC) [reply ]

Thanks. Should either this page or escape sequences explain this? Gah4 (talk) 14:23, 10 October 2016 (UTC) [reply ]

When clicking on "German" from this article, the target is Escape (Key) https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Escape_(Steuerzeichen) instead of Maskierungszeichen https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maskierungszeichen 134.102.193.253 (talk) 12:13, 10 July 2023 (UTC) [reply ]

should this be mentioned or not 2A04:4A43:44DF:D2DA:0:0:6B1E:3470 (talk) 16:30, 11 December 2024 (UTC) [reply ]

I think it's a bit too niche for addition. And it's not that useful anyway. It just changes the colour of text. ―Panamitsu (talk) 22:09, 11 December 2024 (UTC) [reply ]

Plus, Minecraft is a game, not a programming language. Symbol & Font Hunter (talk) 22:55, 12 December 2024 (UTC) [reply ]

This page escape character should be merged into escape sequence. First, character is misleading. It's a code bc it's not always a character (not printable which is I think what character implies). But more so since the concept of escape character is meaningless outside the concept of escape sequence. Escape character is just the prefix of a sequence. Stevebroshar (talk) 22:09, 5 July 2025 (UTC) [reply ]

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