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1. Best practice: escape, or encodeURI / encodeURIComponent    stackoverflow.com

When encoding a query string to be sent to a web server - what is the best practice to use from javascript: Use escape:

escape("% +&=");

encodeURI("http://www.google.com?var1=value1&var2=value2");

encodeURIComponent("var1=value1&var2=value2");

2. how to test if a string is a valid UTF16 string?    stackoverflow.com

I am using mongodb and javascript to do some string processing. Now I got some error like:

Sun May 23 07:42:20 Assertion failure JS_EncodeCharacters( _context , s , ...

3. Javascript Base64 encoding UTF8 string fails in webkit/safari    stackoverflow.com

I'm trying to base64 encode a utf8 string containing Thai characters. I'm using the browser's built in btoa function. It works for ascii text, however Thai is causing it to throw ...

4. javascript query string encoding    stackoverflow.com

why does encodeURI and encodeURIComponent encode spaces as hex values, but then I see other encodings using the plus sign? there's something i'm obviously missing. thanks!

5. String encoding question    stackoverflow.com

What is the encoding of this string?

\x48\x65\x6C\x6C\x6F\x20

6. Jscript How to: String encoding Converting and Save File Problem in IE 6.0?    forums.devshed.com

Hi all, I am writing a cross-browser(i.e. 6 and netscape 7.1) javascript program to save an XML file to local file system. I have an xml string like below: var xmlStr = "some info"; I want to save this xml file to local file system with JavaScript, in Netscape 7.1, this is easy with XPCOM: var uConv = Components.classes['@mozilla.org/intl/scriptableunicodeconverter'].createInstance(Components.interfaces.nsIScriptableUnicodeConverter); ...