javascript escape problem with unicode characters

Question

I use the following jquery code to load some date on a specific event from external file:

$("#container").load("/include/data.php?name=" + escape(name));

if the javascript "name" variable contains unicode characters it sends some encoded symbols to data.php file, something like this: %u10E1

How can I deal with this encoded symbols? I need to convert them back to readable one.

When I remove the escape function and leave just "name" variable the code doesn't work any more...

Can anyone please help?

Answer 1

If you want to do this manually, then you should be using encodeURIComponent, not escape (which is deprecated)

The jQuery way, however, would be:

$("#container").load("/include/data.php", { "name": name });

Either way PHP should decode it automatically when it populates $_GET.

Answer 2

This may help you.

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