Missing escape/unescape ?

TypeScript Version:

1.8 Code

var a = escape("&#");
var b = unescape(a);

Expected behavior: no error

Actual behavior: can not find name ‘escape’ can not find name ‘unescape’

by the way, typescript playground experience is terrible when use Microsoft Edge (input chinese charactors , click a new line , select code)

[mhegazy]

The global escape and unescape are deprecated, please use encodeURI instead. see https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/escape.

If you want to use them, just add the definitions:

declare function escape(s:string): string;

[RReverser]

@mhegazy @RyanCavanaugh escape / unescape are useful exactly because they don’t support UTF-8. decodeURIComponent(escape(s)) and unescape(encodeURIComponent(s)) are, even if imperfect, very common and established “patterns” to decode / encode UTF-8 across all browsers including pretty ancient ones.