[RESOLVED] Messy accented chars problem (involving JS)

[vaaaska]

I'm having the worst time understanding the problem here. I'm sending some values via Ajax (javascript) and I need to use the javascript escape function so that I can send quotes to PHP.

The problem is that when I get my stuff at the recieiving script I can not get my correct values back. So, when I send a string of accented chars off Ajax will escape it and give me this:

%E9%E9%E9%E1%E0%E7%F1 // éééáàç

Using urldecode() does no good on this. I'm not sure what's going on here...anybody know how I might convert these back?

thanks...

[vaaaska]

After toying around with this on and off for three days I have a solution - I'll post it in case anybody comes across this in the future.

You should be urlencoding your string from javascript - the problem is that encode() (javascript function) doesn't play by the same rules. Using php's urldecode, which does play by the rules, doesn't get escape() all the way. Use javascripts encodeURIComponent() function instead. It's less powerful than encode but it plays by the rules.

The big problem has been single quotes. Because I'm dealing with French text I absolutely need to be able to pass both single quotes and accented chars. And so, I replace single quotes separately:

// javacript code
// %27 is our single quote encoded

hello = encodeURIComponent(hello);
hello = hello.replace(new RegExp(/'/g),\"%27\"); // replaces all single quotes

Now, when you recieve the info you can use urldecode() with PHP properly.

I've tested this with Japanese as well and it worked just fine.