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nicozica
nicozica

Reputation: 423

Special characters conversion from a JSON file

I'm receiving the following string (Artist name - Song name) with unreadable characters from a JSON file:
Las Crème Brûlée - Quiéreme Siempre

Is there any way to convert these and other unreadable characters into a proper string with special characters via a Javascript or jQuery function?

In the example provided, this is how the string should be read:
Las Crème Brûlée - Quiéreme Siempre

Project background
The string is read from a JSON file generated from an Icecast mountpoint. For those unfamiliar, Icecast is a streaming server and, for some reason, the streaming software (SAM Broadcaster) is sending the song names without the characters properly encoded.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 457

Answers (1)

N3R4ZZuRR0
N3R4ZZuRR0

Reputation: 2422

Escaping the string will generate a UTF-8 encoded string and then turn it back into a JavaScript UCS-2 string with decodeURIComponent().

console.log(decodeURIComponent(escape('Las Crème Brûlée - Quiéreme Siempre')));

Upvotes: 3

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