I use javascript / jquery to fill dom elements that contain umlauts:
var text1 = "Unser platonisches Internetreich droht in die H%E4nde einer bewaffneten Miliz zu fallen."$("#quote1 span").html(unescape(text1));How can I get rid of the url encoding e.g. "H%E4nde" and use "Hände" instead? I tried
<meta charset="utf-8" /><meta name="http-equiv" content="Content-type: text/html; charset=UTF-8"/><script type="text/javascript" src="js/index.js" charset="utf-8"></script>But none of them seem to work...
Thanks for help.
- That's not "UTF-8 codes". Why is the data encoded this way?2013-05-20 08:15:40 +00:00CommentedMay 20, 2013 at 8:15
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- I just want to save text in a string and then send it to an dom element. The only way I found was to put in the escape sequences manually and then use unescape.Michael Schmidt– Michael Schmidt2013-05-20 14:07:34 +00:00CommentedMay 20, 2013 at 14:07
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That is not UTF-8, that ispercent encoding also known as url encoding.
You can usedecodeURIComponent() to convert it back before displaying it
$("#quote1 span").html(decodeURIComponent(text1));
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Use either of the following built in JavaScript function to decode any encoded text. No need for jquery or any other library.
const text1 = "Unser platonisches Internetreich droht in die H%E4nde einer bewaffneten Miliz zu fallen."console.log(decodeURI(text1))console.log(decodeURIComponent(text1))update:In case you're wondering how to encode, decoded text, you can use another built in JavaScript function like so
console.log(encodeURI(text1))console.log(encodeURIComponent(text1))
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This answer can be improved by sharing the conditions under which one might want to use one decoder over the other.
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