Encode special characters to pass in url and read by javascript [duplicate]

Question

I need to pass some parameters in the url and they can have special characters like ", spanish Ñ or ñ, : spaces and accents.

What is the propper way to encode them before adding to the url or in case I got in the html like that, read them?

I tried this:

arrayData[i] = pair[1].replace('+', " ").replace('%22', "\"");

But just get working with + or spaces, not both at the same time or in 2 lines:

    arrayData[i] = pair[1].replace('+', " ");
    arrayData[i] = pair[i].replace('%22', "\"");

Answer 1

You can try encodeUri Built-in function, for example

encodeURI('coño funcionó!')

Answer 2

Previous answer is correct. JavaScript has built in functions for fulfilling this kind of tasks.

You can try to investigate these functions in w3schools.com. Here are the links with basic information and live "Try it out" feature:

• encodeURI - takes string with your characters and encodes it into plausible for url style ( encoding spaces and non ANSII chars )
• decodeURI - takes encoded string and decodes it to initial state