Regexp to translate Google search words with accent marks

Question

I'm using some code to extract from a Google Url the keyword of the search. Thanks to an answer to my previous post ( Extract keyword from Google search in Javascript ) I was able to do this.

But I realized that words using accent marks give me trouble (eg. "chaîne" (French word) is translated "cha%C3%AEne"). Did someone have the same problem and wrote some magical regex ? :-)

Bruno

Answer 1

You probably want to decode the string. Use

decodeURIComponent("cha%C3%AEne");

see here and here

Answer 2

Just use decodeURI

decodeURI("cha%C3%AEne");