# Pitch: Unicode Named Character Escape Sequence

**URL:** <https://forums.swift.org/t/pitch-unicode-named-character-escape-sequence/18396>\
**Category:** Pitches\
**Tags:** string, unicode\
**Created:** [November 29, 2018, 4:45pm UTC](https://forums.swift.org/t/pitch-unicode-named-character-escape-sequence/18396 "2018-11-29T16:45:38Z")\
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**Author:** ![Joe\_Groff](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/swift/user_avatar/forums.swift.org/joe_groff/32/1929_2.png) [@Joe\_Groff](https://forums.swift.org/u/Joe_Groff)\
**Post date:** [December 2, 2018, 5:23pm UTC](https://forums.swift.org/t/pitch-unicode-named-character-escape-sequence/18396/18 "2018-12-02T17:23:54Z")

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Another preexisting source of standardized short entity names we could borrow are those from HTML `&character;` escapes.

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