Can't unescape escaped string with ABAP

Question

I want to escape this string in SAPUI5 like this.

var escapedLongText = escape(unescapedLongText);

String (UTF-8 quote, space, Unicode quote)

" “

Escaped string

%22%20%u201C

I want to unescape it with this method, but it returns empty. Any ideas?

DATA: LV_STRING TYPE STRING.

LV_STRING = '%22%20%u201C'.

CALL METHOD CL_HTTP_UTILITY=>UNESCAPE_URL
  EXPORTING
   ESCAPED   = LV_STRING
RECEIVING
    UNESCAPED = LV_STRING.

How are you escaping `" “`? When I escape `" “` using `cl_http_utility=>escape_url` it returns `%22%20%e2%80%9c`. — andrecito, Jul 11 '18 at 10:45
Actually, your comment helped me a lot in solving the problem, andreas! Thank you. — Matthijs Mennens, Jul 11 '18 at 21:41

Matthijs Mennens · Accepted Answer · 2018-07-16T05:58:56.980

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I changed the code in SAPUI5 to the following:

var escapedLongText = encodeURI(unescapedLongText);

This results in: (like andreas mentioned)

%22%20%e2%80%9c

If I want to decode it later in SAPUI5, it can be done like this:

var unescapedLongText = unescape(decodeURI(escapedLongText));

The unescape needs to be done, because commas (for example) don't seem to be decoded automatically.

edited Jul 16 '18 at 05:58

answered Jul 11 '18 at 21:52

Matthijs Mennens

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Can't unescape escaped string with ABAP

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