Shoutbox

Any idea on how to decode this kind of html codes?
I've already tried decodeURI() and it doesn't work (at least as expected).

ÁFRICA

I hope the solution doesn't pass by creating a switch for every encoded word...

decodeURI()
decodeURIComponent()

I tried with both of those and it gave me the letter Á which is what it is.

I even tried unescape() which works fine too.

So not sure what to say, unless maybe you can further explain the how it doesn't work as expected.

Can you explain how you did it? I've tried, but somehow it didn't decoded successfully...

I've tried decodeURI("Á"); and it returns the same thing (Á).
I guess I'm doing something wrong... :\

Thanks

Can anyone answer the question, please?

Thanks

Á is a simple code to replace a letter
to "decode" you can simple check the codes significations here :

http://www.ascii.cl/htmlcodes.htm

That was only an example... There are many more characters too translate.

If you are able to extract the number (193 in your example) from the string, then you can call the fromCharCode method of String

Example:

code:

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var s="193";
var c=parseInt(s);
var s2=String.fromCharCode(c);
Debug.Trace(s2);

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I guess that's a better solution.
Anyway, if someone finds out how to work with decodeURI(), can be the best solution.

Thanks again

Just made a little function for removing html codes in this format (i would add support for all the & style codes but theres too many of the darned things )

function: (one line, ok kinda long line but still one line!)

code:

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function htmldecode(encodedString){ return encodedString.replace(/&#([0-9]+);/g, function(a,b){ return String.fromCharCode( b); } ); }

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example:

code:

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htmldecode("Hello World"); //returns "Hello World"

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