Hi!
> What I need now is a javascript function to unencode this string - is
> there already something in myfaces of do one know a library for this.
>
Thanks for your tips.
*) \u - you cant convert a &# to \u (even if its the same code what I
don't know now) - however \u will be evaluated at parsing time, so you
cant do something like alert(string.replace("&#", "\u")) nor "\\u"
*) I have absolutely no clue why the \" stuff works, and here I had no
luck with it.
So here is what I do now.
There are only a handful places in our javascript where we alert
something to the user, I'll replace alert( by something like myAlert().
In there, before passing the string to alert() I will convert the string
using the following simple script:
/**
* decodes all &#nnn; in the given text to its corresponding character
*/
function decodeHexEntity(text)
{
var entitySearch = /&#[0-9]+;/g;
var entity;
while (entity = entitySearch.exec(text))
{
var charCode = entity[0].substring(2, entity[0].length -1);
text = text.substring(0, entity.index)
+ String.fromCharCode(charCode)
+ text.substring(entity.index + entity[0].length);
}
return text;
}
Maybe not the most performant solution, but easily done and it wont be
used in time critical javascript code ;-)
So maybe someone else might find it useful too.
Ciao,
Mario
