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I have a text string that includes an escape sequence like \u00f1. When I ingest in JS and try to append the string to a div, it's literally rendering \u00f1 rather than ñ.

I've tried en/decodeURIComponent and un/escape() to no avail.

Any tricks on how to get the escape sequence rendering the correct UTF-8 character in JS?

P.S. The page is already encoded in UTF-8

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  • Can you show us a complete example? Commented Apr 19, 2013 at 4:49

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The only sane solution is to make sure HTML is properly encoded. Trying to "decode" content may easily bring cross-site-scripting (XSS) issues (incomplete attempt to fix it is likely reason why you see over-encoded text).

Otherwise you can try to decode it several times (for good measure) by using innerHTML and content properties...

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