# unescape

`unescape` is used to decode `entity`, `html` and `htmlall`. It counters
the effects of the [escape modifier](language-modifier-escape.md) for the
given types.

## Basic usage
```smarty
{$myVar|unescape}
```

## Parameters

| Parameter Position | Type   | Required | Possible Values                                                                                                | Default | Description                                                                                                                  |
|--------------------|--------|----------|----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|---------|------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| 1                  | string | No       | `html`, `htmlall`, `entity`,                                                                                   | `html`  | This is the escape format to use.                                                                                            |
| 2                  | string | No       | `ISO-8859-1`, `UTF-8`, and any character set supported by [`htmlentities()`](https://www.php.net/htmlentities) | `UTF-8` | The character set encoding passed to html\_entity\_decode() or htmlspecialchars\_decode() or mb\_convert\_encoding() et. al. |

## Examples

```php
<?php

$smarty->assign('articleTitle',
                "Germans use &quot;&Uuml;mlauts&quot; and pay in &euro;uro"
                );
```

These are example `unescape` template lines followed by the output

```smarty
{$articleTitle}
Germans use &quot;&Uuml;mlauts&quot; and pay in &euro;uro

{$articleTitle|unescape:"html"}
Germans use "&Uuml;mlauts" and pay in &euro;uro

{$articleTitle|unescape:"htmlall"}
Germans use "Ümlauts" and pay in €uro
```

See also [escaping smarty parsing](../language-basic-syntax/language-escaping.md), [escape
modifier](language-modifier-escape.md).