[mochikit] Re: How to convert strings with HTML entities to unicode?

[Bob Ippolito]

On Feb 10, 2006, at 1:11 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Let's say I have a string: "A—B"

I want to set the contents of some element, or even the value of some
attribute of an element, to "A---B" (where --- is the unicode for the
— entity).

Is there are generic way to escape entities?

It'd have to be something along these lines, I guess:

unescapeEntities = function (s) {
        var d = document.createElement("DIV");
        s = s.replace(/</g, "&lt;").replace(/>/g, "&gt;");
        d.innerHTML = s;
        s = d.innerHTML;
        return s.replace(/&lt;/g, "<").replace(/&gt;/g, ">");
};

-bob