Escape character

Escape character - character which invokes an alternative interpretation on subsequent characters in a character sequence. Article “Escape character” in English Wikipedia has 28.7 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 6 references and 15 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 1.51 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 145 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 333 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 185 times in English Wikipedia and cited 435 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #6067 in January 2003
• Global: #10079 in January 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #62690 in September 2014
• Global: #94859 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, 2026 (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		28.6903
2	English (en) Escape character		28.6874
3	Hebrew (he) תו מילוט		25.3969
4	Chinese (zh) 转义字符		24.962
5	Spanish (es) Caracteres de escape		19.4225
6	Polish (pl) Znak modyfikacji		18.8958
7	Hungarian (hu) Feloldójel (informatika)		16.0062
8	Japanese (ja) エスケープ文字		14.0604
9	French (fr) Caractère d'échappement		12.7153
10	Czech (cs) Escapování		11.2688

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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		2 355 550
2	Russian (ru) Экранирование символов		284 402
3	Chinese (zh) 转义字符		179 397
4	Japanese (ja) エスケープ文字		140 266
5	French (fr) Caractère d'échappement		104 538
6	German (de) Maskierungszeichen		103 421
7	Korean (ko) 이스케이프 문자		33 645
8	Portuguese (pt) Caractere de escape		30 804
9	Czech (cs) Escapování		29 701
10	Polish (pl) Znak modyfikacji		27 163

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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 2026

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Escape character		2 925
2	Japanese (ja) エスケープ文字		326
3	Russian (ru) Экранирование символов		291
4	Chinese (zh) 转义字符		229
5	French (fr) Caractère d'échappement		133
6	German (de) Maskierungszeichen		74
7	Spanish (es) Caracteres de escape		43
8	Hungarian (hu) Feloldójel (informatika)		37
9	Portuguese (pt) Caractere de escape		36
10	Polish (pl) Znak modyfikacji		35

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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		145
2	German (de) Maskierungszeichen		32
3	French (fr) Caractère d'échappement		26
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		9
10	Spanish (es) Caracteres de escape		7

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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 2026

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Arabic (ar) محرف الهروب		1
2	Czech (cs) Escapování		0
3	German (de) Maskierungszeichen		0
4	Greek (el) Χαρακτήρας διαφυγής		0
5	English (en) Escape character		0
6	Esperanto (eo) Eskapilo		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		185
2	Japanese (ja) エスケープ文字		48
3	French (fr) Caractère d'échappement		33
4	Chinese (zh) 转义字符		25
5	Czech (cs) Escapování		24
6	German (de) Maskierungszeichen		22
7	Hungarian (hu) Feloldójel (informatika)		19
8	Korean (ko) 이스케이프 문자		18
9	Russian (ru) Экранирование символов		18
10	Portuguese (pt) Caractere de escape		11

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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: #62690 09.2014

Global: #94859 04.2015

Best Rank

English: #6067 01.2003

Global: #10079 01.2003

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