javascript chinese/japanese character decoding

Question

I created a JSONP function on the server and returns a UTF-8 encoded json object like this

applyLocalization({"Name":"%E5%90%8D%E5%89%8D","Age":"%E5%B9%B4%E9%BD%A2"});

on my javascript on the client side, i want to convert the garbled part to their original state like

{"Name":"名前", "Age":"年齢"}

I tried $.parseJSON() but it doesnt work

Solution 1

You can use decodeURIComponent to decode urlencoded strings like yours

decodeURIComponent('%E5%90%8D%E5%89%8D');
//result: '名前'

Solution 2

You could use the decodeURIComponent function. But you shouldn't be URL encoding your javascript strings. You should send them as UTF-8 strings as-is. Javascript is capable of understanding them.

Comments

[Chinchan Zu]

i tried to send them as is but the japanese part become series of question marks so i decided to encode them then decode on the client... is there anything wrong?

[Darin Dimitrov]

@ChinchanZu, yes there must be something wrong with your page or server. Maybe you are no setting the correct response content type or maybe your page is not correctly encoded.