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%u015Fa% this is the escaped character of this [img142.imageshack.us]
How can i unescape it in php? I've tried urldecode, rawurldecode but they are not working. How can i do?
You'll see that 015F is the Unicode character for an S with a squiggly thing on, which I guess is right, so PHP must be adding %u as a unicode identifier, but I have no idea what the a% is at the end, a terminator maybe?
I've actually studied Unicode and wrote a binary encoder/decoder, but it's at the office.
A quick Google found this though, apparently HTML supports Unicode encoded characters as:
ş
But you need to tell the browser you're going to be using these characters, by putting this in your <head>:
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1">
So, your JS simply needs to convert the PHP version of Unicode to the browsers'. Now there are 2 ways to do this, one for pre-processing (you're using JS to add content onto the page), one for post-processing (the character is already there).
As you're using PHP I can assume the character is already on the page, so we can simply use a RegExp to convert any number of these that are already in the HTML source.
Here's my test page, you can see the 1 line JS source code in there. Try it for yourself.
<html><head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1">
<title>Test Page</title>
<script>function php_unescape() {
document.body.innerHTML = document.body.innerHTML.replace( /(%u([0-9A-F]{4})a%)/gi, "&#x$2;");
}</script>
</head><body onLoad='php_unescape();'>
I wonder what these characters are going to be?<br>
%u015Aa% %u015Ba% %u015Ca% %u015Da% %u015Ea% %u015Fa% %u0160a% %u0161a%
</body>
</html>
