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André Silva
André Silva

Reputation: 1108

Decoding special characters in Javascript

How can I, using Javascript, turn this:

RUA CALLOUSTE GULBENKIAN  N.\XBA\ 42 3\XBA\ ESQ

into this:

RUA CALLOUSTE GULBENKIAN  N.º 42 3º ESQ

Is there some method that does this? Because otherwise I would have to predict all the special characters that could appear to replace them.

EDIT:

Tried using String(text) after lower-casing the x and it still doesn't decode the character. Anyone knows any other way?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 313

Answers (1)

Zoey Mertes
Zoey Mertes

Reputation: 3144

You can use String() to do so, however you'll need to lowercase the X in the escapes (resulting in \xBA)

Example code (tested in Chrome dev console):

> String('RUA CALLOUSTE GULBENKIAN  N.\xBA\ 42 3\xBA ESQ');
< "RUA CALLOUSTE GULBENKIAN  N.º 42 3º ESQ"

Source (MDN, last one in the table)

Upvotes: 1

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