I'm using NodeJS with Express, and when I use foreign characters in the URL, they automatically get encoded.
How do I decode it back to the original string?
Before calling NodeJS, I escape characters.
So the string: אובמה
Becomes %u05D0%u05D5%u05D1%u05DE%u05D4
The entire URL now looks like: http://localhost:32323/?query=%u05D0%u05D5%u05D1%u05DE%u05D4
Now in my NodeJS, I get the escaped string %u05D0%u05D5%u05D1%u05DE%u05D4
.
This is the relevant code:
var url_parts = url.parse(req.url, true);
var params = url_parts.query;
var query = params.query; // '%u05D0%u05D5%u05D1%u05DE%u05D4'
I've tried url
and querystring
libraries but nothing seems to fit my case.
querystring.unescape(query); // still '%u05D0%u05D5%u05D1%u05DE%u05D4'