How to decode url-encoded string in javascript

Question

I use javascript / jquery to fill dom elements that contain umlauts:

var text1 = \"Unser platonisches Internetreich droht in die H%E4nde einer bewaffneten Mi         


        

Answer 1

That is not UTF-8, that is percent encoding also known as url encoding.

You can use decodeURIComponent() to convert it back before displaying it

$("#quote1 span").html(decodeURIComponent(text1));