wp-includes/deprecated.php:2084Legacy escaping for HTML blocks.
$textstring$quote_stylestringoptionalENT_NOQUOTES$charsetfalse|stringoptionalfalse$double_encodefalseoptionalfalsestringfunction wp_specialchars( $text, $quote_style = ENT_NOQUOTES, $charset = false, $double_encode = false ) { _deprecated_function( __FUNCTION__, '2.8.0', 'esc_html()' ); if ( func_num_args() > 1 ) { // Maintain back-compat for people passing additional arguments. return _wp_specialchars( $text, $quote_style, $charset, $double_encode ); } else { return esc_html( $text ); }}Unchanged from 6.7.7 through 7.1.0.
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