StringEncode
============

Converts characters from one "encoding" to another using a transformation (think HTML entities, not character encodings).

Installation
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1. Using Package Control, install "StringEncode"

Or:

1. Open the Sublime Text Packages folder

    - OS X: ~/Library/Application Support/Sublime Text 3/Packages/
    - Windows: %APPDATA%/Sublime Text 3/Packages/
    - Linux: ~/.Sublime Text 3/Packages/

2. clone this repo
3. Install keymaps for the commands (see Example.sublime-keymap for my preferred keys)

### Sublime Text 2

1. Open the Sublime Text 2 Packages folder
2. clone this repo, but use the `st2` branch

       git clone -b st2 git@github.com:colinta/SublimeStringEncode

Commands
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`html_entitize`: Converts characters to their HTML entity

`html_deentitize`: Converts HTML entities to a character

`url_encode`: Uses urllib.quote to escape special URL characters

`url_decode`: Uses urllib.unquote to convert escaped URL characters

`json_escape`: Escapes a string and surrounds it in quotes, according to the JSON encoding.

`json_unescape`: Unescapes a string (include the quotes!) according to JSON encoding.

`base64_encode`: Uses base64 to encode into base64

`base64_decode`: Uses base64 to decode from base64

`escape_regex`: Escapes regex meta characters

`escape_like`: Escapes SQL-LIKE meta characters

`safe_html_entitize`: Converts characters to their HTML entity, but preserves HTML reserved characters

`safe_html_deentitize`: Converts HTML entities to a character, but preserves HTML reserved characters

TODO
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`xml_entitize`: Converts characters to their XML entity

`xml_deentitize`: Converts XML entities to a character