Convert input field to UTF-8

[RobBroekhuis]

I use js in a script to prepare input for an external form processor that uses UTF-8 encoding. My users want to input the information in a URL-encoded format, i.e. when they input "Amat%c3%b6rradio" into the form, I want to convert it to "Amatörradio". Is there a js function that will do that? unescape doesn't seem to work right.
Thanks

Rob

 

[RobBroekhuis]

I've made a little bit of progress. I'm now at the point where I have a string variable, let's call it "unicode", that has the hexadecimal unicode value that I want to insert into a string. I can't use:

mystring = firstbit + "\u" + unicode + lastbit

(gives an error). How do I insert the actual unicode character into a string?


Rob