Question

i need to basicaly clean urls that have special characters in it, like so:

http://172.23.113.79/recherche/pages/Results.aspx?k=**cr%c3%83%c2%a9er***

I would like to replace **cr%c3%83%c2%a9er*** by **créer**

and more generally all characters like À Á Â à á â È É Ê è é ê
Ì Í Î ì í î Ò Ó Ô ò ó ô
Ù Ú Û ù ú û.

Answer 1

to make it more general

if (jQuery.browser.msie) {
                retStr = encodeURI(retStr);
            }