How do I convert named HTML entities to numeric HTML entities in javascript?

Question

Following this question (I have the same problem), how do I convert a string that has entities like   to a string those entities as  , with javascript/jquery ?

Answer 1

php.js can be useful to this:

http://phpjs.org/functions/html_entity_decode:424
http://phpjs.org/functions/htmlspecialchars_decode:427
http://phpjs.org/functions/htmlentities:425

Answer 2

str.replace(/$#160/g, '&nbsp');