Accents in URL, how can I escape them correctly ?

Question

I have to get what is next to the # character in the URL (in javascript). When there's an é, for example, I get escaped characters. I can unescape() them, but I get weird characters such as Ã. How can I get the right characters ?

Solution

use encodeURIComponent and decodeURIComponent. escape and unescape will be useful only for ASCII charset, while the former supports unicode charsets.

Comments

[mu is too short]

Mozilla's MDN is much better JavaScript reference than w3schools.

[Rodrigo]

Lol'd! I use w3schools for references links while posting solutions here in SO.