encodeuricomponent

Trouble encoding a u umlaut with in a .Net http handler

I have a JavaScript request going to a ASP.Net (2.0) HTTP handler which passes the request to a java web service. In this system special characters, such as those with an accent do not get passed on correctly. E.G. Human input: Düsseldorf becomes a JavaScript asynch request to http://site/serviceproxy.ashx?q=D%FCsseldorf, which is val...

What is the equivalent of JavaScript's encodeURIcomponent in PHP?

What is the equivalent of JavaScript's encodeURIcomponent in PHP? ...

∞ gets converted to ∞ when inserted into MySQL table

The infinity (∞) symbol gets converted to ∞ when it is inserted into my MySQL table by a PHP script, but if I insert it directly from phpMyAdmin, it inserts correctly. The symbol is passed to the PHP script by a GET call with the JavaScript function encodeURIComponent() around the contents. The field in the MySQL database is utf8_swe...

encodeURIComponent is really useful?

Something I still don't understand when perfoming an http-get request to the server is what the advantage is in using JS fucntion encodeURIcomponent to encode each component of the http-get. Doing some tests I saw the server (using PHP) gets the values of the http-get request properly also if I don't use encodeURIcomponent!!! Obviuosly...

JS encodeURIComponent result different from the one created by FORM

I thought values entered in forms are properly encoded by browsers. But this simple test file "test_get_vs_encodeuri.html" shows it's not true: <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"&gt; <html><head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=windows-125...

Handling of Japanese with Jquery.serialize();

Hoo boy. A weird one I guess! getting input from a form, I want to make sure there are no western characters, punctuation or numbers before sending it to a php script for creating some xml... from form name = "a" $('form').submit(function() { text = ($(this).serialize()); text = text.substr(2,text.length) text = text.replace(/[^\u3...

jQuery encodeURI for href not working.

I'm having problems encoding a string so I can place a variable into a link. I'm sure this is really simple, but i had trouble turning anything up. $("a.inquiry").attr("href", "/inquiry/6933/text=" + encodeURI("text o")); This doesn't work. encodeURI("text o") Still returns: link/text o Instead of: link/text%20 Also tried: ...

how do I properly encode a URL in JavaScript?

I am working on a browser plugin that takes the URL of the current page or any selected link as a parameter and send it to our server. When characters of the basic latin alphabet are present in the url (like http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle), the plugin works fine. However, when the URL contains characters from another alphabet such ...

encodeURIComponent and urldecode removes slashes, why?

Hello I am using JSON.stringify for an array of arrays, and it returns this: '[ ["<span pt=\"7.5\" idfont=\"Humnst777 Cn BT-Bold\">Javelin</span>","0","0"], ["<span idfont=\"Humnst777 Cn BT-Bold\">Javelin&co</span>","0","0"] ]'; It is correct but i have to use encodeURIComponent (& present) to post this value with js. The problem...