Feature: htmlUnescape

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Difficulty
2/5
Estimated time
1-3 hours
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
r
Domain
web-dev

Research direction

Start by locating the existing htmlEscape function and its tests in the htmltools repository. Define the inverse behavior for htmlUnescape, including which escaped entities it should decode, and add coverage showing that escaped HTML can be restored.

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Description

It would be nice to have an inverse function for htmlEscape.

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