UTF-8 Support in PHP and JavaScript
When I was developing phpLiveTalk, I wanted to send some URL encoded text in the AJAX response. I encoded the text using urlencode() php function, but the decoding on the client side (JavaScript) was an issue!
Why?
The JavaScript unescape() function does not understand the ‘+’ (Plus) in the encoding of ‘ ‘ (Space). Actually, it should be %20. So why not replacing all the + with %20 then unescape()!!!
Bingo… Solved.
Here’s the code you may use:
message = unescape(replaceAll(message,'+','%20'));
function replaceAll( str, from, to ) {
var idx = str.indexOf( from );
while ( idx > -1 ) {
str = str.replace( from, to );
idx = str.indexOf( from );
}
return str;
}
Good Luck!
