Re: function to decode url percent encoding

[Xah Lee]

some missing section from my previous post...

I know there's a

  (require 'gnus-util)
 gnus-url-unhex-string

but that just unhex, and generate gibberish if the url contains
unicode chars.

some study shows that the “%E2%80%93” are hexdecimals E2 80 93, and is
the byte sequence of the en dash char by utf-8 encoding.

So, i guess i could parse the url then interpret the %x string as
utf-8 hex bytes then turn them back to unicode chars. Any idea if
there's built in function that helps this?

 Xah


On May 18, 11:12 am, Xah Lee <xah...@gmail.com> wrote:
> is there a function that decode the url percent encoding?
>
> e.g.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sylvester%E2%80%93Gallai_theorem
>
> should become
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sylvester–Gallai_theorem
>
> that's a EN DASH, unicode 8211.
>
> but that just unhex, and generate gibberish if the url contain unicode
> chars.
>
> thanks.
>
>   Xah
> ∑http://xahlee.org/
>
> ☄