Foreign letters failing when sending emails

Question

I sometimes have to send emails in a German and I need to use ö ä ß etc... I have text written containing these letter and using alert() they appear just fine. I have code to send an email :

    var link = "mailto:" + SendTo
         + "&cc= " 
         + "&subject=" + escape(subjectLine)
         + "&body=" + escape(BodyText);
         window.location.href = link;

When I click a button to send the email, the text is missing these foreign letters e.g gruß comes out as gru. Do I need to put anything in here to make sure these letter don't disappear?

Thank you in advance

The **deprecated** escape() method computes a new string in which certain characters have been replaced by a hexadecimal escape sequence. Use encodeURI or encodeURIComponent instead. — MrUpsidown, Mar 12 '15 at 09:27

score 1 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 12:24

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The following articles shows how to decode the letters using javascript :

Javascript decoding html entities

function decodeHtml(html) {
    var txt = document.createElement("textarea");
    txt.innerHTML = html;
    return txt.value;
}

HTML Entity Decode

Using jquery:

varTitle = $('<textarea />').html("Chris&apos; corner").text();

edited May 23 '17 at 12:24

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answered Mar 30 '16 at 10:51

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