Question

I got this guy. He decode a string into a readble one.

decodeURIComponent("Invalid Ticker Name \u0027t\u0027 at line: 3")
"Invalid Ticker Name 't' at line: 3"

Now look at this one. It tells us that the source of this string (array item) is really a string.

typeof decodeURIComponent(errorsArr[i])
"string"

But when I try to decode the array item, it just doesn’t work.

decodeURIComponent(errorsArr[i])
"Invalid Ticker Name \u0027t\u0027 at line: 3"

What to do?

Answer 1

Problem been solved.

As been written in the code

// If the document was sent as 'application/javascript' or
// 'text/javascript', then the browser wraps the text in a <pre>
// tag and performs html encoding on the contents.  In this case,
// we need to pull the original text content from the text node's
// nodeValue property to retrieve the unmangled content.
// Note that IE6 only understands text/html

I have started serving the file as html/text, and that solved the problem.