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Javascript escape() and UTF-8

Something I came across today when dealing with Chinese languages –

the javascript escape() function only works for ASCII characters, so if you are using another language things tend to go wonky pretty quick.

The function you want to use is encodeURIComponent() which will handle Unicode quite happily.

Aardvark | March 8, 2006

The function <a href="http://www.kanolife.com/escape/2006/03/escape-and-unescape-javascript.html">utf8Escape</a> generates a pure UTF8 escaped string and will should handle all Unicode character sets on Unicode enabled browsers. It is also fully compatible with the JavaScript "unescape" function.
Aardvark | March 8, 2006

This shoud link to code.
molsen | March 8, 2006

How do I compare the image that was created to the text field. Do I pass something in a hidden field? Is there an example of how this Add Comment code does the comparison? Thanks!
peter | July 24, 2006

Tools on this website: http://www.webtoolkit.info/ can do the job very well.
Dev | April 14, 2007

Thanks! Saved some time.
Lee Provoost | May 10, 2007

Thanks a lot man! Just solved our problem and our headache… 😉 Not that easy to hunt down these kind of bugs when you’re working with Ajax/JEE.
JD Kasinsky | January 7, 2008

Thanks man, very usefull. The encodeURIComponent() function works perfect instead of escape()

Bye
JD
William Sutanto | April 10, 2010

thanks dude, works pretty good at pdfcast.org
does it work well on cross-browsers?
Zuolin | May 21, 2010

Perfect! It solves all issues using EncodeURIComponent instead of Escape and EncodeURI.

Thanks a lot
Felix | August 10, 2010

Thanks!!
jual celana | February 15, 2012

I was just browsing for related blog posts for my project research and I happened to discover yours. Thanks for the excellent information!