Unescape cyrillyc characters escaped like &#xXXX;

Question

i have a following problem: I am parsing a website with Node-Red "html request"-component. It returns a UTF-8 String representation of a web page, which i try to process afterwards in Javascript function. My problem ist that strings in some elements on the page are being encoded like

&#x43F;&#x440;&#x438;&#x432;&#x435;&#x442;

which should actualy say

привет

What kind of escaping is that? It looks like unicode, but with "&#x" instead of "/u0". How can i make the text human-readable again using javascript?

They are *HTML Entities*, the duplicate has a function to convert to a string. — Alex K., Jul 11 '18 at 14:19

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Jul 11 '18 at 15:12

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Maybe like this:

var str='&#x43F;&#x440;&#x438;&#x432;&#x435;&#x442;';

var div = document.createElement('div');
div.innerHTML = str;
var new_str=div.firstChild.nodeValue;
console.log(new_str);

answered Jul 11 '18 at 15:12

mscdeveloper

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Thank you all for your help! I want to describe my solution here. As Node-Red uses server-side javascript and misses all the browser-site javascript features like DOM-Parser i have used this solution https://stackoverflow.com/questions/18749591/encode-html-entities-in-javascript – user48538 Jul 13 '18 at 10:02

Unescape cyrillyc characters escaped like &#xXXX;

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