Question

I am trying to get a text input field whose value gets sent as the parameter for an XSL transformation which is performed in JavaScript. I have set up a form with the get method, and my script gets the URL parameter like this:

var word=unescape((''+self.location.search).substring(5)).toLowerCase();

This works fine, except when the input contains special characters. I have set the HTML page’s encoding to UTF-8, and I have added

accept-charset="utf-8"

to the form. I have also specified charset=”utf-8″ in the script tag, but it still doesn’t work. My browser (Firefox) is set to UTF-8 as the default encoding. I have tried removing the unescape function too.

Answer 1

try

decodeURIComponent()

instead of

unescape

see @ http://www.w3schools.com/jsref/jsref_decodeuricomponent.asp