jQuery: Variable from URL, with ÆØÅ and what not

Question

I use a script to get a variable from the URL and decode it - "userName" to be preciese.

However the script only works with English characters, and not Danish or other Latin characters. How can I get pass this?

If the name is "Jørgen-Vælle Jürgensen" then the script will output "Jørgen-Vælle Jürgensen" ... not quiet what I expected... :-)

Script:

//Get the variable userName from URL
$.extend({URLEncode:function(c){var o='';var x=0;c=c.toString();var r=/(^[a-zA-Z0-9_.]*)/;
  while(x<c.length){var m=r.exec(c.substr(x));
    if(m!=null && m.length>1 && m[1]!=''){o+=m[1];x+=m[1].length;
    }else{if(c[x]==' ')o+='+';else{var d=c.charCodeAt(x);var h=d.toString(16);
    o+='%'+(h.length<2?'0':'')+h.toUpperCase();}x++;}}return o;},
URLDecode:function(s){var o=s;var binVal,t;var r=/(%[^%]{2})/;
  while((m=r.exec(o))!=null && m.length>1 && m[1]!=''){b=parseInt(m[1].substr(1),16);
  t=String.fromCharCode(b);o=o.replace(m[1],t);}return o;}
});


$.extend({
    getUrlVars: function () {
        var vars = [], hash;
        var hashes = window.location.href.slice(window.location.href.indexOf('?') + 1).split('&');
        for (var i = 0; i < hashes.length; i++) {
            hash = hashes[i].split('=');
            vars.push(hash[0]);
            vars[hash[0]] = hash[1];
        }
        return vars;
    },
    getUrlVar: function (name) {
        return $.getUrlVars()[name];
    }
});

_allVars = $.getUrlVars();
var userName = _allVars.userName;

$(".userName").text($.URLDecode(userName));

What shouuld I do??

Thank you in advance.

Answer 1

See decodeURIComponent

Answer 2

You need to decode the url. $.URLDecode(url) is your friend =) It's a plugin (there might be a built-in way in jQuery or plain javascript, but this was the first hit on Google) so you'll have to download and include that for it to work.

Answer 3

use javascript decodeURIComponent function to decode the url.

Answer 4

Instead of:

$(".userName").text($.URLDecode(userName));

Use this

$(".userName").text(decodeURI(userName)+ "");

The answer is to use JavaScript only, which makes it very simple.