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jcubic
jcubic

Reputation: 66590

How to unescape url that have unicode characters

I have url like this: https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muzeum_Dawnej_Wsi_%E2%80%9EDomek_Tkaczki%E2%80%9D in browser address bar it show up as Muzeum_Dawnej_Wsi_„Domek_Tkaczki” but when I copy it to clipboard it show encoded, how can I unescape the url like this? I've tried to use this:

unescape(location.href);

but got url that look like this:

https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muzeum_Dawnej_Wsi_âDomek_Tkaczkiâ

Upvotes: 0

Views: 55

Answers (1)

deceze
deceze

Reputation: 522500

unescape is incomplete and deprecated:

Note: Do not use unescape to decode URIs, use decodeURI instead.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/unescape

The latter works as expected:

console.log(decodeURI('https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muzeum_Dawnej_Wsi_%E2%80%9EDomek_Tkaczki%E2%80%9D'));

Upvotes: 2

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