Escape character

Escape character - character which invokes an alternative interpretation on subsequent characters in a character sequence. Article “Escape character” in English Wikipedia has 28.6 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 6 references and 14 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 1.5 points.

This article has the best quality in Persian Wikipedia. However, this article is the most popular in English version.

Since the creation of article “Escape character”, its content was written by 136 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 321 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 199 times in English Wikipedia and cited 461 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #6074 in January 2003
• Global: #10070 in January 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #62321 in September 2014
• Global: #94740 in April 2015

There are 17 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2025 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	Persian (fa) نویسه رهایی		28.7095
2	English (en) Escape character		28.5574
3	Hebrew (he) תו מילוט		26.089
4	Chinese (zh) 转义字符		24.9891
5	Polish (pl) Znak modyfikacji		21.1507
6	Spanish (es) Caracteres de escape		19.62
7	Hungarian (hu) Feloldójel (informatika)		16.0054
8	Japanese (ja) エスケープ文字		14.1497
9	French (fr) Caractère d'échappement		12.7249
10	Czech (cs) Escapování		11.2969

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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

The most popular language versions of the article "Escape character" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Escape character		2 307 136
2	Russian (ru) Экранирование символов		268 850
3	Chinese (zh) 转义字符		174 230
4	Japanese (ja) エスケープ文字		135 437
5	German (de) Maskierungszeichen		102 021
6	French (fr) Caractère d'échappement		101 686
7	Korean (ko) 이스케이프 문자		32 647
8	Portuguese (pt) Caractere de escape		30 400
9	Czech (cs) Escapování		29 146
10	Polish (pl) Znak modyfikacji		26 672

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

The most popular language versions of the article "Escape character" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Escape character		6 223
2	Russian (ru) Экранирование символов		590
3	Japanese (ja) エスケープ文字		558
4	Chinese (zh) 转义字符		513
5	French (fr) Caractère d'échappement		242
6	Korean (ko) 이스케이프 문자		177
7	German (de) Maskierungszeichen		118
8	Spanish (es) Caracteres de escape		113
9	Czech (cs) Escapování		70
10	Polish (pl) Znak modyfikacji		66

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

Language versions of the article "Escape character" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Escape character		136
2	German (de) Maskierungszeichen		32
3	French (fr) Caractère d'échappement		25
4	Hungarian (hu) Feloldójel (informatika)		22
5	Chinese (zh) 转义字符		20
6	Russian (ru) Экранирование символов		18
7	Czech (cs) Escapování		17
8	Japanese (ja) エスケープ文字		10
9	Polish (pl) Znak modyfikacji		8
10	Greek (el) Χαρακτήρας διαφυγής		6

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

Language versions of the article "Escape character" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Esperanto (eo) Eskapilo		1
2	Arabic (ar) محرف الهروب		0
3	Czech (cs) Escapování		0
4	German (de) Maskierungszeichen		0
5	Greek (el) Χαρακτήρας διαφυγής		0
6	English (en) Escape character		0
7	Spanish (es) Caracteres de escape		0
8	Persian (fa) نویسه رهایی		0
9	French (fr) Caractère d'échappement		0
10	Hebrew (he) תו מילוט		0

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

Language versions of the article "Escape character" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Escape character		199
2	Japanese (ja) エスケープ文字		49
3	French (fr) Caractère d'échappement		31
4	Chinese (zh) 转义字符		31
5	Czech (cs) Escapování		28
6	Hungarian (hu) Feloldójel (informatika)		25
7	German (de) Maskierungszeichen		21
8	Russian (ru) Экранирование символов		19
9	Korean (ko) 이스케이프 문자		11
10	Hebrew (he) תו מילוט		10

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic محرف الهروب
cs	Czech Escapování
de	German Maskierungszeichen
el	Greek Χαρακτήρας διαφυγής
en	English Escape character
eo	Esperanto Eskapilo
es	Spanish Caracteres de escape
fa	Persian نویسه رهایی
fr	French Caractère d'échappement
he	Hebrew תו מילוט
hu	Hungarian Feloldójel (informatika)
ja	Japanese エスケープ文字
ko	Korean 이스케이프 문자
pl	Polish Znak modyfikacji
pt	Portuguese Caractere de escape
ru	Russian Экранирование символов
zh	Chinese 转义字符

Best Rank

English: #62321 09.2014

Global: #94740 04.2015

Best Rank

English: #6074 01.2003

Global: #10070 01.2003

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