Answer 1

Try decodeURI("") or decodeURIComponent("") !-)

Answered by: Leonardo579 | Posted: 24-02-2022

Answer 2

Using JavaScript's escape/unescape function is almost always the wrong thing, it is incompatible with URL-encoding or any other standard encoding on the web. Non-ASCII characters are treated unexpectedly as well as spaces, and older browsers don't necessarily have the same behaviour.

As mentioned by roenving, the method you want is decodeURIComponent(). This is a newer addition which you won't find on IE 5.0, so if you need to support that browser (let's hope not, nowadays!) you'd need to implement the function yourself. And for non-ASCII characters that means you need to implement a UTF-8 encoder. Code is available if you need it.

Answered by: Kellan116 | Posted: 24-02-2022

Answer 3

decodeURI[Component] doesn't handle + as space either (at least on FF3, where I tested).

Simple workaround:

alert(decodeURIComponent('http://foo.com/bar+gah.php?r=%22a+b%22&d=o%e2%8c%98o'.replace(/\+/g, '%20'))) 

Indeed, unescape chokes on this URL: it knows only UTF-16 chars like %u2318 which are not standard (see Percent-encoding).

Answered by: Carlos682 | Posted: 24-02-2022

Answer 4

Try

var decoded = decodeURIComponent(encoded.replace(/\+/g," "));

Answered by: Miranda344 | Posted: 24-02-2022

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