How to ignore (or convert) non UTF8 characters?

[Tux SC]

Hello,

I have a JavaScript function which receives as input a string which in
some cases contain non-UTF8 characters. The output of this function is
used by another utility which fails if it receives any non-UTF8
characters. Is there a way for me to filter out or convert the non-
UTF8 characters in the JavaScript function?

Thanks much!

[alwhitener]

Is there a way for me to filter out or convert the non-

UTF8 characters in the JavaScript function?

Try using the global function escape(). :)

[David Golightly]

On Feb 27, 1:55 pm, [e-mail] wrote:

Is there a way for me to filter out or convert the non-
UTF8 characters in the JavaScript function?

Try using the global function escape(). :)

Deprecated - instead use encodeURIComponent.

-David

[ASM]

David Golightly a écrit :

On Feb 27, 1:55 pm, [e-mail] wrote:

>>Is there a way for me to filter out or convert the non-
UTF8 characters in the JavaScript function?

Try using the global function escape(). :)

Deprecated - instead use encodeURIComponent.

What is really different between both ?

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[David Golightly]

On Feb 27, 4:54 pm, ASM <[e-mail]>
wrote:

David Golightly a écrit :

On Feb 27, 1:55 pm, [e-mail] wrote:

>Is there a way for me to filter out or convert the non-
UTF8 characters in the JavaScript function?
Try using the global function escape(). :)

Deprecated - instead use encodeURIComponent.

What is really different between both ?

--
Stephane Moriaux et son (moins) vieux Mac déjà dépassé
Stephane Moriaux and his (less) old Mac already out of date

What they do is similar: they convert non-URI-safe characters to URI-
Hex values eg. ' ' -%20. However, escape will not encode any of
[ @*/+ ] (inside brackets), and the '+' character is interpreted as a
space on the server-side. Also, escape doesn't properly handle non-
ASCII characters. encodeURIComponent makes up for the shortcomings of
escape(). It doesn't encode any of [ ~!*()' ] (which are all URI-
safe).

-David