You can use this Javascript to encode / decode url parameters. Script is fully compatible with UTF-8 encoding. It’s useful when u want to transfer data using AJAX technology, or for other operations which involve url parameter manipulation.
If you plan using UTF-8 encoding in your project don’t forget to set the page encoding to UTF-8 (Content-Type meta tag).
DEMO
Source code for webtoolkit.url.js
/**
*
* URL encode / decode
* http://www.webtoolkit.info/
*
**/
var Url = {
// public method for url encoding
encode : function (string) {
return escape(this._utf8_encode(string));
},
// public method for url decoding
decode : function (string) {
return this._utf8_decode(unescape(string));
},
// private method for UTF-8 encoding
_utf8_encode : function (string) {
string = string.replace(/
/g,"
");
var utftext = "";
for (var n = 0; n < string.length; n++) {
var c = string.charCodeAt(n);
if (c < 128) {
utftext += String.fromCharCode(c);
}
else if((c > 127) && (c < 2048)) {
utftext += String.fromCharCode((c >> 6) | 192);
utftext += String.fromCharCode((c & 63) | 128);
}
else {
utftext += String.fromCharCode((c >> 12) | 224);
utftext += String.fromCharCode(((c >> 6) & 63) | 128);
utftext += String.fromCharCode((c & 63) | 128);
}
}
return utftext;
},
// private method for UTF-8 decoding
_utf8_decode : function (utftext) {
var string = "";
var i = 0;
var c = c1 = c2 = 0;
while ( i < utftext.length ) {
c = utftext.charCodeAt(i);
if (c < 128) {
string += String.fromCharCode(c);
i++;
}
else if((c > 191) && (c < 224)) {
c2 = utftext.charCodeAt(i+1);
string += String.fromCharCode(((c & 31) << 6) | (c2 & 63));
i += 2;
}
else {
c2 = utftext.charCodeAt(i+1);
c3 = utftext.charCodeAt(i+2);
string += String.fromCharCode(((c & 15) << 12) | ((c2 & 63) << 6) | (c3 & 63));
i += 3;
}
}
return string;
}
}