I don’t have a use case for this but I was recently asked this very question and w3schools helpfully tells you the characters are ignored but not why.
Anyone have any idea why this might be the case?
Thanks,
David
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I don’t have a use case for this but I was recently asked this very question and w3schools helpfully tells you the characters are ignored but not why.
Anyone have any idea why this might be the case?
Thanks,
David
From your source: “The escape() function encodes a string, so it can be read on all computers.”
Those characters are standard in the ASCII set, so there’s no point in encoding them for this particular purpose.