Encoding problems when passing parameters in url

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I'm writing a piece of Javascript that takes in the title of the current page, and sends it to a form in a Rails 3 app. If the title is something like

Review - “Episode 20”

then when I pass that title to my form:

http://localhost:3000/notes/myform?title=Review - “Episode 20”

the title appears in my form as

Review - �Episode 20�

How do I fix this?

Robert · Accepted Answer · 2011-01-14 04:28:04Z

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You can use encodeURI

console.log(encodeURI('Review - “Episode 20”')); 
// "Review%20-%20%E2%80%9CEpisode%2020%E2%80%9D"

I'm no Ruby pro, but I believe the Ruby way to decode this is CGI::unescape()

answered Jan 14, 2011 at 4:28

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jschorr · Accepted Answer · 2011-01-20 20:44:44Z

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Or use URI_escape:

enc_uri = URI.escape("http://example.com/?a=\11\15")
# => "http://example.com/?a=%09%0D"

answered Jan 20, 2011 at 20:44

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