Translations:Extension:Scribunto/Lua reference manual/907/en

Replaces various characters in the string with HTML entities to prevent their interpretation as wikitext. This includes:
 * The following characters: '"', '&', "'", '<', '=', '>', '[', ']', '{', '|', '}'
 * The following characters at the start of the string or immediately after a newline: '#', '*', ':', ';', space, tab ('\t')
 * Blank lines will have one of the associated newline or carriage return characters escaped
 * "" at the start of the string or immediately after a newline will have the first '-' escaped
 * "__" will have one underscore escaped
 * "://" will have the colon escaped
 * A whitespace character following "ISBN", "RFC", or "PMID" will be escaped