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How to convert multibyte characters like curly quotes to their equivalent entity like “ using jquery or javascript?

var userTxt = '“testing”';

after converting userTxt should look like => “testing”

Satish Gadhave
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    Shouldn't you use `var userTxt = '“testing”';` – Optimus Prime Jul 31 '13 at 13:26
  • Out of interest, why would you want to do that? If you’re having display problems with characters like this, setting your `Content-Type` HTTP header to `text/html; charset=utf-8` (or an appropriate value if you’re using a different encoding than utf-8) should sort them out. – Paul D. Waite Jul 31 '13 at 13:32
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    http://stackoverflow.com/a/784765/2220391 works http://jsfiddle.net/Spokey/8ftfS/ – Spokey Jul 31 '13 at 13:35

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Here's how to do it:

$('<div/>').text('This is fun & stuff').html(); // evaluates to "This is fun &amp; stuff"

Source

Or you can do it this way.

Kamil Szymański
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try instead if you can use $quot instead of &#8220 

var e_encoded = e.html().replace(/"/g, "&quot;");
console.log(e_encoded); // outputs &quot;&amp;

or you can use this function 

function htmlEscape(str) {
    return String(str)
            .replace(/&/g, '&amp;')
            .replace(/"/g, '&quot;')
            .replace(/'/g, '&#39;')
            .replace(/</g, '&lt;')
            .replace(/>/g, '&gt;');
}
Tushar Gupta - curioustushar
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You can do this using regular expressions.

function replace_quotes( text ){
    return text.replace(/\u201C/g, "&#8220;").replace(/\u201D/g, "&#8221;");
}

This function replaces the quote characters by matching their unicode hex code.
See: Regex Tutorial - Unicode Characters

Splendiferous
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